Quotes About Independence

No one has the right to beat you.

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

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

As long as i live i will have control over my being

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

I'm not a nice girl; I'm a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )

Creativity is an act of defiance.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.

She has given me a way out.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

I'm not interested in pop art.

Without freedom there is no art.

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

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

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.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for them. If it was up to me, I would've just moved to New York.