Mad Artist/Quotes

"This guy must have 500, maybe 600 bodies down there. Stuck up on the walls like some psycho version of the Sistine Chapel!"

—Darry Jenner, Jeepers Creepers

"Poetry implies either a happy gift of nature or a strain of madness."

—Aristotle

"Art is a bang!"

—Deidara, Naruto, right before blowing himself up.

"Adam presents new problems for the professional. As your tools improve, so do your standards. There was a time, I was happy enough to take off a wart or two, or turn a real circus freak into something you can show in the daylight. But that was then, when we took what we got, but with Adam... the flesh becomes clay. What excuse do we have not to sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt until the job is done?"

—Dr. Steinman, plastic surgeon, BioShock (series)

"When Picasso became bored of painting people, he started representing them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius! I've spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes, over and over again: the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample bosom. Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could do with a knife what that old Spaniard did with a brush?"

—Dr. Steinman, BioShock (series)

"Today I had lunch with the Goddess. Steinman, she said, I'm here to free you from the tyranny of the commonplace. I'm here to show you a new kind of beauty. I asked her, "What do you mean, Goddess?" Symmetry, dear Steinman. It's time we did something about symmetry."

—Dr. Steinman, BioShock (series)

"The MM is the Matter Manipulator- flesh sculptor. Old forgotten art form practised by certain sick fucks in the Middle Ages, only back then they usually used dead bodies. The MM made the freaks what they are. Nasty shit- small guy, shifty eyes, wears a hat. Lives in the funhouses, which between you and me ain't no funhouse, and hardly ever comes out except when someone's been actin' up and the boss wants to scare 'em straight."

—Gonko, The Pilo Family Circus

"The Wild Bunny, by Sander Cohen:
I want to take the ears off, but I can't.
I hop, and when I hop I never get off the ground.
It's my curse, my eternal curse.
I want to take the ears off but I can't!
It's my curse, it's my fucking curse!
I want to take the ears off!

Please! Take them off! plea-ea-ease!"

—Sander Cohen, BioShock (series)

Urist McArtist cancels task: taken by mood.
Urist McArtist looses a roaring laughter, fell and terrible!

(Urist McArtist drags Urist McVictim into the nearest butcher shop or tanner shop, brutally murders McVictim and makes a random object out of the leather or bone.)

—A possible scenario in Dwarf Fortress

"I make art until somebody dies."

—The Joker, Batman

"'Torture' is such an inelegant word. I'm an artist. Their testicles are my canvas."

—Revolver Ocelot, The Last Days of Foxhound