Quotes about Provocative
Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person to install a urinal wasn't an artist, he was a plumber.
— Seth Godin
But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.
— Audre Lorde
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
— George Whitefield
I stopped and I thought, 'What would Jesus do?' So I didn't exist.
— Bo Burnham
Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.
— Maya Angelou
Arguing about how it literally happened can be an easy way to avoid facing the people in your life you need to forgive. For the people who first heard this story, the story would have had a provocative, unsettling effect. The Assyrians? The Assyrians were like a huge, gaping, open wound for the Israelites. Bless the Assyrians? The story is extremely subversive because it insists that your enemy may be more open to grace and love than you are.
— Rob Bell
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
— Leonard Ravenhill
A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.
— Os Guinness
Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them.
— Erica Jong
After 'Superstar,' I was encouraged. I felt audiences wanted to be challenged.
— Todd Haynes
I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers.
— Jesse Lee Peterson