Quotes About Freedom

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

I live for the blank page.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.

I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.

If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I've been taking a lot of time to paint and be in nature. I would say I'm happier as a person. More centered. More free.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

I can paint in jail.

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

Oh, I paint all the time.

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

I love to paint.

If you put a blank canvas in front of Matisse and say, 'This has to be a success,' who's going to pick up a paintbrush?

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

My painting does not come from the easel.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.