Art Quote by Bill Hicks

Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm...…

— Bill Hicks

Pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thoughts...Sounds like almost every commercial on TV to me.

— Bill Hicks

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

— Leonard Rossiter

Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that…

— Jean Baudrillard

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

— Camille Paglia

Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For…

— Sheila Jeffreys

Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and…

— Andrea Dworkin

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

— Angela Carter

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

— Audre Lorde

“At the heart of pornography is a pursuit of a short-term pleasure at the expense of a long-term good.”

— Darrin Patrick

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

— Anonymous

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps…

— Potter Stewart