Shock Quotes

• An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Long, Lasts

  53 Copy quote

• Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

  William Throsby Bridges

  Disappointment, Moving, Transition

  27 Copy quote

• Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

  Paul Gauguin

  Today, Dare

  René Huyghe, Paul Gauguin (1977). “Gauguin”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.

  Jean Helion

  Real, Feelings, Doubt

  17 Copy quote

• I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

  Ai Weiwei

  Confused, People, Want

  "Noble and Ignoble" by Jed Perl, newrepublic.com. February 1, 2013.

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

  15 Copy quote

• Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

  Roger Scruton

  Firsts, Sometimes, Boring

  15 Copy quote

• bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

  Edward Gibbon

  Creativity

  17 Copy quote

• Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

  Antoni Tapies

  Reality, Creating, People

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 25), 2004.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Confusing, Notice Me

  15 Copy quote

• From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.

  Henri Matisse

  Portraits, Faces, Firsts

  15 Copy quote

• Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

  Orson Welles

  Feelings, Too Much, Sickness

  "Encore: 'Future Shock' 40 Years Later". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. June 30, 2016.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light.

  Joan Miro

  Reality, Light, Dust

  15 Copy quote

• Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

  Ben Lindsey

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenager

  15 Copy quote

• The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Thinking, Ideas, Clothes

  15 Copy quote

• The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

  Gary Holland

  Art, Dark, Sunshine

  15 Copy quote

• Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Spiritual, Communication, Loss

  16 Copy quote

• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Long, Elbows

  15 Copy quote

• When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.

  Laurence Gartel

  Art, Jobs, Individuality

  15 Copy quote

• The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Doors, Unexpected, Surprise

  15 Copy quote

• For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, California, Space

  15 Copy quote

• Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

  Tina Turner

  People, Delhi, Traffic

  15 Copy quote

• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

  Voltaire

  Eye, Color, May

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3307, Delphi Classics

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.

  Red Skelton

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  49 Copy quote

• Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Believe, Subversion

  15 Copy quote