Quotes About Freedom

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

Doing nothing makes us crazy. But freedom comes when you don't have to work.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

Prohibition didn't work, so why should emancipation work? I think we should just stick with a system that has proven to be effective.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

I admire photographers that don't need a destination. In some ways, street photography is like that. There's a quality of wanderlust for sure in my work, but I need a destination.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.