Jakob Dylan Quotes

Artists can do whatever they want!

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.

My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.

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.

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

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

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

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what he wanted to say.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

I'm just singing a song, and if people want to laugh, that's their business.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

I will always demand the right for theatre to talk about anything and anyone. Without exception. None.

You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.

I have no goal to have artistic credibility.

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

Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint inhumane practices, no author could write about them, and no filmmaker could delve into the thorny subjects of our time.

At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make it work. That's opened me up to being able to be much more comfortable telling any kind of story.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.

Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.