Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.

Art seduces, but does not exploit.

My idea is to paint paintings so that when you walk into a room, I'm pulling you in, or that makes you suddenly stop and wonder: 'What is this? There is something groovy, something else going on here.' Also, I want to give you what is obvious and what is not obvious to the eye.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

It was difficult to contradict this artist—this seducer.

This is about relationships, about the placement of potent colors and the canvas sparkling through. I want the eye to dance across the canvas but direct you, too.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

Art is manipulation without intervention.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.