Al Jourgensen Art Quotations

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.

I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I've sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there's smoke there's fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.