Quotes About Freedom

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

The whole secret of freedom from anxiety over not having enough time lies not in working more hours, but in the proper planning of the hours.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

The work has to have room to breathe.

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too

We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working that does not demand that.