Energy Quote by Pipilotti Rist

When you look at pornography, the women become objects, whereas what I'm trying to do is make the person in the photograph as important…

— Rankin

Pornography: That which excites, whether from approval or disapproval.

— Leonard Rossiter

My position has always been that there's two types of people opposed to pornography: those who don't know what they're talking about, and those…

— Larry Flynt

An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention…

— Herbert Read

If pornography is part of your sexuality, then you have no right to your sexuality.

— Catharine MacKinnon

I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't think it…

— Noam Chomsky

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for…

— Pipilotti Rist

“Pornography is certainly more beautiful than eroticism. Eroticism is ugly. Eroticism is an ideology... there is nothing more boring than eroticism, it's worse than…

— Pierre Guyotat

I don't know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else's erotica that you don't like. People…

— Erica Jong

pornography, to me, represents freedom.

— Jenna Jameson

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 place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience.

— Susan Sontag