Creative Liberty Quotes

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don't have to go see it if you don't want to, so don't go.

What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue—the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word, that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.

In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about.

Don't be afraid. There is no right answer in fashion.

I apply paint directly from the tube and with my fingers.

I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

Coldplay doesn't have to stay within a certain genre; they just go where they go.

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.