Brian Eno Quotes

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.

I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

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.

Pretty much anybody who does creative work in China navigates the gray zone. People aren't clear about where the line is any more, beyond which life gets really nasty and you become a dissident without having intended ever to be one.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

When censorship is intelligent, it will stop a film before it is made. If not, it is too late.

If printers (publishers) only printed that which everyone liked, there would be very little printed

I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

It's not that, living in Pakistan, I feel an enormous constraint on how I can write and what I can say; rather, I recognize that one has to navigate these things... Am I aware of things that one could say that would be risky or that could be dangerous? Certainly I'm aware of those things.

As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.

I don't like seeing talented storytellers ruled by fear.

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

Several times I drew a critical cartoon and then, at the last moment, stopped myself from putting it out in print. I thought it would be misunderstood, be a politically incorrect thing to do.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.