Sharon Van Etten Quotes

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

I'm not in a certain type of genre, and I can't be categorized or pigeonholed. That leaves a wide range of what I can do for myself, for other people, and with other people.

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way that I see that don't have any buffers or compromises in them.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

My imagination can do whatever it wants to do. This gives me a great sense of freedom.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.

That's the nice thing about songwriting: You don't have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There's really a lot of freedom to it.

Without freedom there is no art.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

Art for me is the science of freedom.