Brad Paisley Quotes

I like artists to have some freedom.

I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'

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

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

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.

Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

Artists can do whatever they want!

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

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

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

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.

I am comfortable doing independent music; it gives me more freedom as an artiste.

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've directed all my videos throughout my whole career, 'cause that's leeway. I was granted that opportunity to be able to do that.

We got full artistic integrity and autonomy over what we were doing, and that was the main important thing that kept our band alive.

I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.

Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.

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.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

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

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.