Dana Walden Quotes

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement. I find the hypocritical aspect disconcerting, to say the least. We can show people being murdered on television, but I'm not able to say "chickenshit" in public. At the same time, I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

My work is my way of expressing myself without being arrested.

The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.

Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.

Freedom is the thing that has attracted me most to jazz. Within improvisation, you're really able to express something that maybe I'm not so adept at expressing via language. So I develop a language through the instrument to tell stories. So it's kind of this freedom of thought and freedom of expression that kind happens.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And all art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.