Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall.
Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
When the arts become a political football, they lose.
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.
Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed.
Cinema is a form of art, and like every other art form, cinema also needs freedom of expression.
Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.
I think people are intolerant of artists.
You have got to stress the freedom of music to really branch out and be universal.
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.
I like Feist's music because it's really smart, but it's really free and soulful at the same time. Sometimes you only get one or the other.
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
