Quotes About Freedom

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

The golden rule in the arts, as far as I am concerned, is that all rules are meant to be broken.

Art is what you can get away with.

Art is an escape from reality.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

Art is not to throw light but to be light.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.