Art Quote by Andres Serrano

I think the role of the artist today is about being provocative. I don't mean shocking, but you have to provoke people into action.…

— Mira Calix

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness…

— Pink

A lot of art can potentially make people uncomfortable, particularly when it deals with different times and hard issues.

— Mary Katharine Ham

Art is meant to disturb

— Georges Braque

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

— David LaChapelle

“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.”

— Milan Kundera

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art,

— Robert Rauschenberg

It may be fine for an artist to be indifferent to the reaction of the viewer to a work of art. A vigorous debate…

— Richard Edelman

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular -…

— April Gornik

Art is not always meant to be decorative or soothing, in fact, it can create uncomfortable conversations and stimulate uncomfortable emotions.

— Shepard Fairey

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who…

— John Boorman