Daphne Gottlieb Quotes

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I listen to music, I read scripts, and I know pretty intuitively if I can unlock it in a way. It's actually very liberating when you understand that not everything is for you.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

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

I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.

You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.

I stopped worrying about competition in contemporary art. It feels a little bit more pure. That's where I am, one step back.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations.

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table.