Anarchist Quote by Nell Zink

All artists are anarchists in some way - some more extreme than others, but it's something that I think artists are supposed to do.…

— Robert Zemeckis

One of the things I've had to struggle with is that part of what people find critically and curatorially questionable in my work is…

— Jack Pierson

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

— Genesis P-Orridge

When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an anarchist, but…

— Peter Stormare

And it's been one of my big sort of campaigns throughout my career, really, is to sort of make art accessible but without dumbing…

— Grayson Perry

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

— James Frey

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

— Vivek Shraya

My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of…

— Magdalena Abakanowicz

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness…

— Pink

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very…

— Esperanza Spalding