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Quotes About Expression

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.
~ Unknown
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.
~ Martha Graham
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
~ Don DeLillo
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
A people's art is the genesis of their freedom.
~ Unknown
The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Punk rock should mean freedom, liking and excepting anything that you like. Playing whatever you want. As sloppy as you want. As long as it's good and it has passion.
~ Kurt Cobain
Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.
~ Lucien Bourjeily
Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.
~ Cathy Rigby
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
~ C. E. M. Joad
Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.
~ Ben Burtt
To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.
~ Don Hertzfeldt
I should not dare to call my soul my own.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
~ Cornelia Parker
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
~ Stanley Kubrick
For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.
~ Jean-Pierre Jeunet
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
~ Edie Brickell
I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.
~ Rakim
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.
~ A. V. Dicey
At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.
~ David Guterson
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
~ Friedrich Schiller
The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor