Quotes About Independence

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

Where there's liberty, art succeeds.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

To exist here, I'll have to become skilled in saying no—an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice.

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.

I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to.

I no longer hold you responsible for how I feel.

Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

I've never tried to emulate anyone. I've never idolized people, I prefer instead to get off on attitudes.

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya

I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.

You have to move forward in life. You can't sit in the same place, unless you want to, that's a choice too. But you can't sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable." Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. "Country." Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.