Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.