Top 38 Transgressive Quotes
#1. We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
Laurie Simmons
#2. The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.
Mamphela Ramphele
#3. Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's ... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#4. There's an extremely fine line between "boldly transgressive" and spiritually barren,
Mark Steyn
#5. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It's something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve.
Lena Dunham
#6. The transgressive quality of love is the transgressive quality of art ... From the Pre-Raphaelites till now, the avant-garde has always been characterized by radical views of love and sex.
Rod Dubey
#7. I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#8. In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.
Slavoj Zizek
#9. Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable
Michael Haneke
#10. I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.
Joyce Carol Oates
#11. I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.
Neil Gaiman
#12. I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.
Matt Nix
#13. The message received from the mass media is that knowledge makes love less compelling; that it is ignorance that gives love its erotic and transgressive edge.
Bell Hooks
#14. Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.
Susanna Moore
#16. I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.
Bocafloja
#17. I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.
Neil Gaiman
#18. According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
Xavier Becerra
#20. There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena.
Donald Barthelme
#21. The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.
Ziggy Marley
#22. We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#23. She looked forward to seeing him play because then she would be able to stare frankly.
Vivien Shotwell
#24. Both light and dark are eternity. Human beings assign relative values to colors, but beyond the relative, there just is - what in Zen we call "suchness".
Frederick Lenz
#25. If an asset has cash flow or the likelihood of cash flow in the near term and is not purely dependment on what a future buyer might pay, then it's an investment. If an asset's value is totally dependent on the amount a future buyer might pay, then its purchase is speculation.
Seth Klarman
#26. A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.
Fiona Helmsley
#27. Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status.
C.Z. Hazard
#28. Don't you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies ...
Samuel B. Southwell
#30. You've slept with Gabrielle?" Adam asked. "You haven't slept with her too, have you, Mark?"
"No!" Mark answered.
"Good, or I would have felt really left out.
N.M. Silber
#31. Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.
Susan Jeffers
#32. The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one
Thomas Chalmers
#35. Friedrich von Bernhardi, one of Germany's most influential military thinkers. Bernhardi believed the German people were destined to become the master race, who would prevail over lesser breeds and rule the world.
Paul Ham
#36. That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community
Chuck Palahniuk in interview with TMO
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. A woman can be an object if that's her objective.
Brandon Tietz
#38. Only in California could the night air be lit not by fireflies, but radioactive porn star cumshots.
C.Z. Hazard
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