Harry Callahan Quotes

Without freedom there is no art.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Make good art.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Every man is an artist.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

Express yourself in any way possible.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!