Art Quote by David Foster Wallace

“We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies--but this is very different.”

— David Foster Wallace

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted…

— David Foster Wallace

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

— David Foster Wallace

I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from…

— Noam Chomsky

The ultimate goal of radical politics is gradually to displace the limit of social exclusions, empowering the excluded agents (sexual and ethnic minorities) by…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Alice is fictional. This isn't.”

— Jess C. Scott

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees…

— Rory Bremner

There are parodies of non-existent things.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to…

— Thomas Szasz

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

— Tony Blair

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

— Al Yankovic

Weird Al is not gonna do a parody of your song if you're not doing it big.

— Chamillionaire