Artist Quote by Camille Paglia

The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled:…

— Jonah Goldberg

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

— Roger Scruton

When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit…

— Charlize Theron

I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just shock value.…

— David Cross

You don't need shock value things to make a movie successful.

— Haylie Duff

I've been on shows that go for shock value

— Daphne Zuniga

We have a slate of four films. From Karen Young - the USA bestselling author - we have Blood Bayou. Again, we're relying on…

— Drew Waters

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your…

— John L'Heureux

You don't do things for shock value anymore, because that's not even the language of today. At least, that's not what interests me. If…

— Italo Zucchelli

Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it,…

— George Carlin

It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying…

— Beth Ditto

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The…

— Joshua Leonard