Dark Art Quotes

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

I've never seen the devil create music.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

What the world needs right now... a good, artistic, gothic, terrifying scare

'Blue Velvet' changed my life forever. It was like I'd always read Chaucer and suddenly discovered Charles Bukowski. It made me understand that there is poetry of sublime ecstasy and dark terror, and it spoke to a side of me that hadn't been reached before.

Sometimes the darker the work, the more fun you can have.

I'm drawn to stuff with a certain darkness, and darkness with beauty within it.

Left to my own devices, I tend to go darker and weirder, and it's fun.

The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It's something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.

The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry.

Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.

Every town has its dark side, but I spend time in New York for my dark inspiration.

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'