Sadie Frost Quotes

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.

In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.

I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was another. We were the mutual complaint society.

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.

The avant garde is so narcissistic.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.

The more far-out artists, the better.

I like art. It's another way to rebel.

The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.

I am an artist with very strong social and political concerns.

I think there's very little interesting in art that is not transgressive in some way. And I don't think that's a very revolutionary thing to say.

I like money but I love performance art and it goes hand in hand. I'm not the 'Titanic,' I'm 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.' I'm not a blockbuster, I'm a cult classic. I think my strong but cult-like fanbase expects me to challenge norms.

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the world that it is ugly, sick and hypocritical.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.