Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
When I'm making a collage, there are a lot of things about it that are violent.
The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.
I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened.
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.
Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent it feels.
The act of creation can be an extreme violent experience.
