Artwork Quote by Ai Weiwei

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

— Al Goldstein

There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find…

— Tracey Emin

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

— Willow Smith

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

— Irving Stone

One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my work is…

— Jack Pierson

I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title…

— Emma Donoghue

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

— Eugene Souleiman

I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this…

— Carl Andre

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the…

— JR

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work!…

— Roy Lichtenstein

There's an awful lot of work being done that no one ever sees, or that is only seen in the gallery world. I feel…

— Stuart Franklin

I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth.…

— Gerhard Richter