Harold Rosenberg Quotes

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

When I'm singing, I'm another person. I can be really free, in the sense that I can do whatever I want.

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.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.

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

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

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

Poetry is a break for freedom.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.