A Quote by Neil Gaiman

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman
British - Author
Born: November 10, 1960

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

Neil Gaiman

In order effectively to liberate oneself from the grip of existing social reality, one should first renounce the transgressive fantasmatic supplement that attaches us to it.

Slavoj Žižek

The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.

Janet Malcolm

Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you.

Jeremy Scott

Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't expect it in a woman's text.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

Bocafloja

I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive act, and artists must accept being punished for it. The more original and unsettling their art, the more devastating the punishment.

Joyce Carol Oates

I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing transgressive, genre-blurring fiction. I write 'core SF' - it may occasionally incorporate horror or noir tropes, but it's not pretending to be anything other than what it is.

Alastair Reynolds

We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.

Laurie Simmons

I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.

Bruce Sterling

Always, European art cinema has been the most threatening and the grimmest and the most transgressive, I think.

John Waters

The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.

Michael Haneke

I was raised on GG Allen, Divine, Elvira and Marilyn Manson. I was always more interested in those button pushing, transgressive artists and they made a lot of good money doing it.

Sharon Needles

I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.

Matt Nix

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