Art of life Quote by Francis Bacon

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

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

— Jon Glaser

Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.

— Agnes Gund

“Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not a tranquil…

— Jessica Zafra

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can…

— Robert Bringhurst

Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting,…

— Elizabeth Neel

“Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to another -…

— Toi Derricotte

This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a…

— Jack Bowman

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making…

— Penn Jillette

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

— Teller