Lucien Bourjeily Quotes

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Self-expression should not be a challenge that demands extraordinary talent but should be a right accessible to all.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

I just think people should be able to express themselves.

Performance artists in a free society have the right to do the most extraordinary and bizarre things. That’s called ‘Freedom of Speech.’

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

I think arts should be liberal, people should be allowed to express themselves. It happens in most democratic countries in the world, and I don't see why it should be different in India.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

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

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

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?

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

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.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

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

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.

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.

Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.

In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he had much wavier hair and a slightly thicker mustache. But when you deny an artist the chance to explore his art, you're forcing your beliefs on him.