"Being covered in white paint ,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public ,and created a breach of the peace and public order."

31 quotes

🇩🇪Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Literature

Dada

1874–1927

"People were afraid of her because she was undismayed about the facts of life--any of them--all of them."

"The relationship of art and play: to play is art - consequently I play. I play enraged."

"The film moves at what I consider to be the speed of art — which is slow. Cremaster 2 does what I think sculpture does: It moves slowly and requires that one move around it to understand it, and to visit it repeatedly."

"A practical observation that I’ve made over the years with ancient beloved people in my life—real spiritual youth is gained latterly."

"Writing is a transformative act and writing the occult, which I interpret as writing what’s invisible, or apparently invisible, is inevitably connected to writing my desire as a woman…"

🇦🇹Johannes Grenzfurthner

Entertainment

b. 1975

"Strange to see radical anti-Semites using Facebook. I'd like to call that Zuckerberg's Paradox."

"Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about."

"Art is nothing abstract, theoretical. We cannot detach it or set it apart. Art must live, and I want to be the intermediary of life."

"There’s no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist. It’s not like becoming a doctor or something. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist."

"I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment."

"A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art."

"QUESTION: A well-known saying of yours asserts that 'Every man is an artist.' If every man is an artist, then why have art academies and art professors at all?"

"Teach me how to talk to you. WANT. Is my wanting you so bad, wanting your cock so bad, wanting the feel of your lips on my lips just me being selfish and egoistic? Teach me a new language."

"Alex Grey reading Art Psalms from Beloved Presents... ART SPIRIT NOW Festival"

"OffOffOff.com : "Burning Woman" , by Robin Eisgrau"

"Concrete poetry is a fusion of visual art and poetry."

"See, we assemble. Samsung, Viking, Gaggenau, and Whirlpool. Here, here. Here, we exist. In the streets. And houses, in cars, and fields. As ever-present as sunshine."

"The female nude is part of a revered tradition, although she is not to take authority over depictions of her nudity. She is just to be available."

"Without electricity, there can be no art."

"…Quilting was a method of artistic expression that could also be used to cover people, to keep them warm, but which also put designs together to make them beautiful…"

5 quotes

🇺🇸Lane Nishikawa

Entertainment

"I try to get everybody to enter my world real quickly. I think the audience starts to see that it’s a person going through a struggle, with each performance piece, the exchange just keeps growing."

"Some Notes on Seeing: The Waters Reglitterized By Laurie Anderson for exhibition 2005"

"The bottom line is that the human species has to realize the human body really is just a cheap suitcase."

"I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women."

"Events are weapons for politicization of art."

"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."

"The glaring obviousness of my paternity of monochromy in the twentieth century is such that even if I myself were to fight hard against that fact I should probably never manage to rid myself of it."

"You'll leave this theatre in a different state."

1 quotes

🇺🇸Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Literature

b. 1975

"Inclusion without power or leadership is tokenism."

2 quotes

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