Art Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“..."offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual"...”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“In my experience, when people take offence at something, it is invariably because they know that there is a large grain of truth in…

— arthur mathews

“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Some people looove to feel offended because it makes them feel important. When your only tool is a hammer, suddenly every problem starts to…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to…

— Moliere

Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass…

— George Will

“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates…

— Thomas Kinkade

'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.

— Tim Crouch

“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more...…

— Stephen Fry

“Anything approaching an explanation is always derogatory to a work of art.”

— Oscar Wilde

Offensive is a word that describes what a person is talking about.

— Grass Hopper

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley