Art Quote by Vincent Price

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

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

— Teller

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

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

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as…

— Ayn Rand

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.

— Eric Maisel

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

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness…

— Laurence Gartel

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.

— Tony Kushner

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

— David Bailey

All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making…

— John Boorman

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

— Jon Glaser