Salma Hayek Quotes

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help free a lot of people that ain't free.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Our work is a scream of freedom.

Panic! at the Disco, for me, has been an outlet to do whatever. I never felt like there were any rules. It was always carte blanche. I could do whatever I wanted. There were no rules set yet for the band. It just felt right.

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

Dance was my escape from reality.

When I'm making a song, I try not to think about audience or genres. It's free-flowing. Natural.

Liberation tolerates no limits, be they political, cultural, religious, or even natural.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

Dance is a great way to express yourself.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.

I've been dancing since I was five. To me, dance is a visual representation of being free and empowered.

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.