Accompany Quote by Anais Nin

“In a world grown paralyzed with introspection and constipated by delicate mental meals this brutal exposure of the substantial body comes as a vitalizing…

— Henry Miller

Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.

— Brendan Gill

The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and…

— Ron Kovic

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The germ of creation lies in violence.

— Rudolfo Anaya

“In its confounding of the logic that maintains terms like high and low, or base and sacred as polar opposites, it is this play…

— Rosalind Krauss

What is obscenity? And to whom?

— Allen Ginsberg

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

— Anonymous

“It is always easy to mock 'distress,' but we are its contemporaries; we are at the endpoint of what Nous, ratio, & Logos, still…

— Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux

The concept of 'obscenity' is tested when one dares to look at something that he has an unbearable desire to see but has forbidden…

— Nagisa Oshima