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.
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.
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.
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.
