Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality.
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.
I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away.
I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.
Fashion is instant. It makes you feel something the second you see it on a body... whether you love it or hate it, or it offends you, or it makes you laugh or cry.
To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
