Artistic Liberty Quotes

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

I believe in limitations. I think the worst art ever made - in my opinion, because it's all so subjective - is where the artist had complete freedom.

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

I realized that once I graduated from college, there might be a period of time where people might typecast me or be more limiting, and I might not be able to play a crazy character. For me, it was important to do that at least in school.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

It's weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don't see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries.

I believe in giving actors the freedom to express themselves, and adding more to whatever is written.

When I'm doing a part, I'm not coming with any baggage of who did what. I looked at 'Force 2' as a fresh film. It's a new story and a new director.

I wanted a label that reflects the times... a center for artists who want to express themselves. That's what makes Interscope unique. It's about freedom.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

I think jazz has given me freedom with my voice.

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard Ramirez or whatever comes to mind. I just write.

It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

I write what I'm interested in.

You're not a slave to those test audiences.

There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.