Henry James Quotes

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

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

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

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

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

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

I like artists to have some freedom.

We need to give artists a lot of free room to create.

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

You know, I'm incredibly blessed to be able to have this level of choice as an artist today. In this economy, it's something that I, you know, pinch myself at constantly, just thinking about how I could wake up tomorrow and decide I'm going to start painting this or that. So it's good.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

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

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.

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.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.