History Quotes / ItsNotPornItsArt

->The intellectuals can forgive you appearing nude in a film, but not for throwing a punch.
-->-- '''Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo'''
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-->-- ''Series/StudioC'', Graffiti Artist

->''Suddenly all the shapes that were moving in the darkness came together to make a single obscene image which dominated the whole room. And the song was over.\\

"In other words," said the singer, "you are not yet able to distinguish between art and pornography!" and advancing toward John very deliberately, he spat in his face and turned to walk out of the room.''
-->-- ''Literature/ThePilgrimsRegress'' by Creator/CSLewis

->"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [of "obscene material"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But '''I know it when I see it''', and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."

->''As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense,''\\
''To be smut''\\
''It must be ut''\\
''terly without redeeming social importance''

->"Movie directors say NUDITY is about ART. But then, [[DoubleStandard why are women NUDE in movies three times as much as men?]] Or in Series/GameOfThrones six times as much? That doesn't seem like art. Unless "Art" is the name of a gross gym teacher."

->''Then the lights came on''\\
''It was all obscene''\\
''Bend back, give head''\\
''It's not pornography''\\
''If you do it with light''\\
''Then it's art, you see''\\
''If you do it with a twist''

->''"Possession of nudity in all forms makes you a pervy loser worthy of mocking and ridicule. (Unless it's an oil painting, a sculpture, or soft-focus photograph, then that's *art* and therefore perfectly acceptable. But you're not permitted to be aroused by that in any way.)"''

-->--''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', "[[Recap/BlackadderS3E4SenseAndSenility Sense and Senility]]"

->'''Kyoko:''' ''"They are not porn! They just contain tasteful depictions of lovemaking between characters in love! Is that so wrong?!"''\\
'''Enigma:''' ''"Right or wrong doesn't matter when the first twenty pages of a book contains two dragons doing the horizontal limbo!"''

'''Blackadder:''' [[SarcasmMode ...A philosophical work then.]]\\

->''Sexuality is part of our nature, but whenever it's shown, it becomes "dirty pornography". Shouldn't a body in the state of sexual ecstasy be considered beautiful?''
-->-- Banner Ad, ''Slipshine'' erotic WebComic hosting site.

-->-- A Creator/{{VidAngel}} ad that [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs this trope]]

->'''Sprocket:''' Still peddling mainstream muck to the masses?
->'''[=McBain=]:''' Yeah. Are you still Head Projectionist at the Thrust-And-Grunt Emporium?
->'''Sprocket:''' If you mean, am I showing tasteful erotica to a select adult clientele...the answer is yes.
->'''[=McBain=]:''' "A select adult clientele?" They buy their raincoats at the candy bar!

->"Movie directors say NUDITY is about ART. But then, [[DoubleStandard why are women NUDE in movies three times as much as men?]] Or in Series/GameOfThrones [[UpToEleven six times as much?]] That doesn't seem like art. Unless "Art" is the name of a gross gym teacher."

''If you do it with a twist''\\
-->-- '''Music/TheKnife''', "One Hit"

-->-- '''[[Creator/CSLewis C.S. Lewis]]''', ''The Pilgrim's Regress''

-->--'''Music/TomLehrer''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pva35TFiBfI "Smut"]]

-->--Banner Ad, ''Slipshine'' erotic WebComic hosting site.

->'''Billy Kwan''', ''Film/TheYearOfLivingDangerously''

->'''Billy Kwan''', ''TheYearOfLivingDangerously''

->'''Billy Kwan''', ''The Year of Living Dangerously''

-->''Sexuality is part of our nature, but whenever it's shown, it becomes "dirty pornography". Shouldn't a body in the state of sexual ecstasy be considered beautiful?''

->''As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense,''
->''To be smut''
->''It must be ut''
->''terly without redeeming social importance''

-->--'''TomLehrer''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pva35TFiBfI "Smut"]]

-->-- '''[[CSLewis C.S. Lewis]]''', ''The Pilgrim's Regress''

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