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There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.
— Andres Serrano
Success requires, a human touch, intuitive powers and provocative thinking processes
— Julian Pencilliah
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
— Adrian Mitchell
I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.
— Rupert Murdoch
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
— Llewelyn Powys
I have nothing but the highest regard for 'Salon' and its commitment to independent and provocative journalism.
— Glenn Greenwald
I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
— Kathryn Bigelow
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.
— Toni Morrison
Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.
— David Mitchell
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
— J. Hoberman
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Ugly is, as Ugly does!
— Lorene Stunson Hill
Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
— Ivars Peterson
Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.
— Sam Harris
I don't want to be too 'classic' because it's not in the DNA of Gucci. You need to be a little bit provocative.
— Frida Giannini
While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
— John Podhoretz
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
— William S. Burroughs
A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.
— Nalini Singh
I'll never know what possessed my mother to steal my father's lions that night.
— Laura Shepard Townsend
I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.
— Michael Douglas
People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.
— Madonna Ciccone
I thought I could get everyone's attention by coming up with something that's provocative.
— Seungri
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
— Isaac Barrow
It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.
— Lyall Watson
No controversy, no PR.
— Tim Fargo
Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.
— Diane Sawyer
I think it is really important to be in some way provocative either intellectually or viscerally
in the films one makes. — Peter Greenaway
I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.
— Marc Maron
Double et louche (a provocative phrase which could mean "double and squinting" or "equivocal" or "shady" in the sense of disreputable).
— Barbara W. Tuchman
There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.
— Roger Vadim
I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.
— Megalyn Echikunwoke
Beneath the moons' shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination...
— Virginia Alison
The public has no idea that writing is a disease, and that the writer who publishes is like a beggar who exhibits his sores.— Michael Kruger
If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
— Donald Rumsfeld
I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.
— Julie London
Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language
— Clotye Murdock Larsson
I like the most provocative and most surprising partnerships on stage. Intensity and surprise.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
— Madonna Ciccone
Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
— Erin Morgenstern
I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
— David LaChapelle
There's a big line between beauty and nudity, Alice! A man does not need provocative dressing to see the beauty in a woman.
— Farhan Shahjahan
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!
— John Densmore
To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.
— John McTiernan
we only shout when we neglect what silence can do
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.
— George Meyer
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
— Christopher Darden
Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.
— Rob Lowe
I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.
— Madonna Ciccone
It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.
— Catherine Deneuve
A good quotation must be provocative; as provocative as to demolish an old wrong castle in the mind with a single strike!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.
— Sigmar Gabriel
We are two girls, with endless thoughts of provocative romance.
— Candace Werts Nikki Hoy
Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
I died for a short while the first time we met
— Charlotte V. Howard
There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.
— Maggie Gyllenhaal
I naturally want to be provocative.
— Iggy Azalea