Art Vandalism Quotes

In war, the first thing that goes, when you try to take over culture, is the statues. I think we all can recall statues with their heads cut off in museums.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.

I want to assassinate painting.

My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.

Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.

The altering of African facial features and the lightening of the skin colors of painted reliefs inside the tombs are central aspects of the conspiracy to destroy the memory of classical African civilizations. The two main conspirator groups carrying out these acts are European and American research teams, and local Arab government workers.