Creative Liberation Quotes

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

The freedom of punk really appealed to me because I came from the rules and regulations of studying classical piano.

I feel like I've done Pete Hornberger, and that is a painting I have signed, and I don't need to play that character anymore. So I'll get offers for panicky, pathetic guys, and while it's a great compliment to get them, I feel like I don't need to play that again.

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

My music's matured so much, I don't have to create any barriers.

An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.

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

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

You street-dance in a club, you're performing. Whether anybody sees me is a whole other thing. But it doesn't matter, because it fills my void.

The experience of writing under a pseudonym was tremendously liberating; I could write what I wanted.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.

When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a lot of ideas because they won't fit, because they're not commercial.

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression. I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was. I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y'know.

There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.

I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.