Unrestricted Art Quotes

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

I paint what I like, when I like and where I like.

I'm allowing myself every opportunity, every tool that every other artist should allow themselves to use. If anybody expects me to not use certain language or certain words, like I have some kind of penalty restriction, it's completely unrealistic.

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could.

I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That's just not how my songwriting works - it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are.

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

I'm not going to restrict myself as an artist.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.

I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.

Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

I'm obsessed with the idea of genrelessness and generationlessness.

There is something challenging in shooting something in just one day and there is freedom knowing there is going to be no censorship.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

I don't think I would change really anything about rap. Rap don't have no limits to it, and I like it like that.

I have no goal to have artistic credibility.

I make music with no boundaries.

In my music, I'm uncensored, which has helped me stand out as a female artist.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.