Art Censorship Quotes

#1. Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

#2. Art made tongue-tied by authority.

William Shakespeare

#3. All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

Gene Wolfe

#4. It only takes a second to score a goal.

Brian Clough

#5. Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

Eknath Easwaran

#6. One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#7. You move on, you have to - but you don't write someone out.

Adam Silvera

#8. I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.

Philip Pullman

#9. A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

Alan Cumming

#10. Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Semir Zeki

#11. By night the Glass
Of Galileo ... observes
Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

John Milton

#12. Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might.

Amy Tan

#13. There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

John Boorman

#14. Only a free hand can draw a free line.

Marty Rubin

#15. Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do.

Joshua Jackson

#16. For a man to successful, not only must he succeed but his friends must also fail.

Gore Vidal

#17. These tales of a world, once beautiful, and now fairly forgotten.

Hugh Howey

#18. The world spares only those who remain modest and humble - and even then only for an interval, no more.

Sandor Marai

#19. We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that's an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we've been preparing in the past.

Tom Vilsack

#20. Most politicians, when they meet with a guy like me, or a guy like Carville, tell you about how they can win.

Paul Begala

#21. Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.

Adamo Macri

#22. Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Salman Rushdie

#23. Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.

Orhan Pamuk

#24. I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Jeff Buckley

#25. God opens the door so that we can establish His kingdom on earth

Sunday Adelaja

#26. No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

Oscar Wilde

#27. Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Pablo Picasso

#28. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Pat Conroy