Quotes About Banned Art

#1. To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

Victor Hugo

#2. There's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie's.

Ron Brackin

#3. I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

Boris Becker

#4. You learn, no matter what age you are, to keep things to yourself.

Colm Toibin

#5. Art thou deaf when friends are banned as foes?

Sophocles

#6. I was always awake!" interrupted Faith. "I was always angry!

Frances Hardinge

#7. We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

Trai Byers

#8. Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Nancy Gibbs

#9. Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of attention that we're in.

Frederick Lenz

#10. There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.

George W. Bush

#11. A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

Walter Winchell