I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque, I am nothing.
Aubrey Beardsley
Art should comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable.
Cesar A. Cruz
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.
Vincent Van Gogh
Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help a person by discerning what is wrong, what is ugly, what is distorted.
Anthony of Sourozh
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
Auguste Rodin
There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.
Auguste Rodin
Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher. Just simply be a human being.
Osho Rajneesh
If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something.