Quotes About Offensive Art

#1. I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see it.

Rebecca Sugar

#2. Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.

Michael Leunig

#3. If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Erica Jong

#4. I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

Peter Ustinov

#5. In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

Gregory Benford

#6. No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

Thomas Paine

#7. There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

Hayden Schlossberg

#8. Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

John Frederick Demartini

#9. Hunter and hunted. There are so many ways in which a man can destroy a woman." Her handmaid sighed. "When it comes to matters of the heart, immortals know nothing.

Paula Altenburg

#10. It is wise to know God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#12. Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

Alfred North Whitehead

#13. Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.

Kurt Cobain

#14. Aikido ain't a defensive nor offensive martial art.
It proactively halts the enemy's intention to attack.

Toba Beta

#15. The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

David Souter

#16. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer ... then surely we are also permitted doubt.

Yann Martel

#17. During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

Ernst Gombrich

#18. Salvation never will come through hope of reward.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

Vladimir Nabokov

#20. I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.

Samantha Isler

#21. But he became known as a bad luck ship, mockingly called the Pariah.

Robin Hobb

#22. This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.

William Blake

#23. There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Anatole Broyard

#24. I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.

Tony Hawk