“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
“Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." -Unknown”
“As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.”
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
“I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said, 'That's clever. It's an anagram of art,' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.”
“Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?”