Ezra Furman Quotes

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

Artists can do whatever they want!

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

I like artists to have some freedom.

I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

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

I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility.

It's so nice to be totally artistically free.

You can't stop an artist from expressing his views through art.

Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.

I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.

I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries.

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.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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.

I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.