Patti Smith Quotes

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

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

This is America. We're allowed to draw whatever we want.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

People have the right to say what they want to.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

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.

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

Nothing is harmful to literature except censorship, and that almost never stops literature going where it wants to go either, because literature has a way of surpassing everything that blocks it and growing stronger for the exercise.

I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

There are no rules in art.

I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

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

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

So you have free speech, but you don’t have much to say.