Quotes About Artistic Freedom

#1. Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

Salman Rushdie

#2. As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

George Brandis

#3. I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

Ted Kotcheff

#4. Everyone should be encouraged ... in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

John Cale

#5. I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work.

Helen Mirren

#6. True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards

Dean Cavanagh

#7. I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

Christy Turlington

#8. In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Joe Nichols

#10. Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

Jim Rowe

#11. We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us to go into a certain direction, so they could promote us easier.

Mark McGrath

#12. I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.

Ashlee Simpson

#13. Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#14. There are many ways to serve.

Caroline Kennedy

#15. Remember when the sound of little feet was the music We danced to week to week Brought back the love, we found trust Vowed we'd never give it up Remember when Alan Jackson, "Remember When

Denise Jackson

#16. Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.

Flora Thompson

#17. The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

Lucien Bourjeily

#18. I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

Lucy Larcom

#19. It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#20. There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

Maria Montessori

#21. That's the fine balance of a fiction writer ... to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Alan Lightman

#22. Pushing the boundaries of my golden cage, searching for new ways of expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love - that was my summer of 1979.

Ella Leya

#23. Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.

Christina Westover

#24. Life is one big chore.

Jemina Akhtar

#25. Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Max Stirner

#26. I feel naked when I'm by myself on stage. I feel as honest as I can.

Johnette Napolitano

#27. Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.

Frank Sinatra

#28. If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need.

Ai Weiwei

#29. Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic.

Kurt Cobain

#30. Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

James Jackson Jarves

#31. Giving style to one's character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being.

Pessoa, Fernando

#33. Miracle Message #22: I speak with confidence because the world needs my light. #MiraclesNow

Gabrielle Bernstein

#34. I feel like plenty of people have normal-seeming families that, as they're growing up, feel awful. I'd rather have one that looks weird from the outside but felt really normal.

Megan Amram