Art Quote by Teller Download Open image “If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.” — Teller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art Tends Artist Be kind Kind Kind Tiresome Tends Threat Threat Violence Tiresome Violence Violence Art
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
Art is one of the few ways we have of dealing with things that frighten or anger us. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it. — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake… — Teller Copy Share Image
People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?'… — Teller Copy Share Image
Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to… — Teller Copy Share Image
Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science. — Teller Copy Share Image
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look… — Teller Copy Share Image
Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years. — Teller Copy Share Image
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable. — Teller Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
