Quotes About Expression

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

There is an uncalculating, unaffected, unbound excitement in us when the Spirit is given freedom to express Himself through us.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Freedom is about what you can unleash.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

Ive still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.