Quotes About Freedom

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

I believe that art has incredible power.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

There is no best anything in art.

... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.