Art Quote by Dana Walden

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

— Tavi Gevinson

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

— Leo Tolstoy

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Milan Kundera

If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.

— Teller

It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism,…

— Katharine Whitehorn

Sometimes it's fun to explore ideas that might make people uncomfortable. If you let it, there's a lot of self-censoring that can go on…

— Ted Alexandro

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

— Maurice Ravel

My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our…

— Joyce Carol Oates

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