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All art is subversive.
I can be a subversive element.
Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'
Creativity is basically subversive. . . .
I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.
What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
I think the best pop is always subversive in its nature.
Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.
'The Beach' novel, in my mind, was, in some respects, subversive.
If I wanted to make a subversive record, it would be horrifying and insane.
Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing.
So much conspires to silence us - because our truths are inherently subversive.
The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.
I don't see myself as subversive. I just don't necessarily buy what people tell me initially.
The Internet carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic, nihilistic.
I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.
Communists love to make films about composers because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.
When a good idea sparks, it's usually because of some subversive angle that means the song we're writing will be fresh.
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.
Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
I wish that there were more games having the courage to talk about more subversive topics. Talking about politics, sexuality, human relationships.
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind of a psychopath, and you'd care about them.
I'm very drawn to subversive comedy like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman. But at the end of the day, if you want to do great work, you have to pay your dues.
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
Racism is over in the 'Star Trek' future, but they found a way to comment on sexism and racism in the present day in such a subversive and smart way, you know?
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.
When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.
It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.
I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.
It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.