Alexander Dubcek Quotes

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

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

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

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

One of the advantages of not going to art school is that you're not taught what you can't do.

It's so nice to be totally artistically free.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

When I am creating art, I have absolutely no social responsibility. It's like dreaming.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

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

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

I'm more relaxed about how the editing process will create a performance and that, in a way, gives me a sense of freedom.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I still feel like that. Because of that I think I've been able to realize a lot of things that were just ideas. When I was living in New York City, it's such a rat race, it's so competitive and everything is so concrete and in your face all the time. If you're like, "I'm gonna be a writer!" Everybody's like, "Yeah, you and all the other assholes on the subway." There isn't a lot of space for the detached, free-floating movement of the imagination.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."