Art Quote by 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

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Teller

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

— Jon Glaser

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.

— Vincent Price

Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.

— Val Kilmer

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects…

— Francis Bacon

You'll see more violence in any television crime series than you will in my films... Art is there to have a stimulating effect, if…

— Michael Haneke

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of…

— Steven Erikson

Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us.

— Eric Drooker

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

— Agnes Gund

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington