Quotes About Art

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

A people's art is the genesis of their freedom.

To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.