Appropriation Quote by Marlene Dumas

“Nude paintings and sculptures are called "art" only in the museums.. Outside of the museums, It is "Absurdity" and "Vulgarity". To respect your own…

— Himmilicious

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

— Marlene Dumas

If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic...…

— David Salle

“The idea that people can be improved by being offended will finally have to meet the idea (espoused some of the time by some…

— Wendell Berry

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must…

— Man Ray

These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art.

— Geoff Dyer

I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK…

— Elliott Erwitt

“I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the…

— Oscar Wilde

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

“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for…

— Clive Barker

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

— Al Goldstein

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art.”

— Susan Sontag