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Quotes About Expression

If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.
~ Andrew Wyeth
The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.
~ Bruce Lee
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
~ Neil Gaiman
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
~ Neil Gaiman
What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
~ John Cale
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
~ Frederick Forsyth
Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
~ Neal Boortz
Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries.
~ Unknown
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.
~ Gustave Courbet
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
~ Frederick Douglass
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
~ Taslima Nasrin
I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.
~ Howard Nemerov
There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.
~ Rose Leslie
If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
~ Rollo May
I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
~ Lord Hailsham
Free thought, free speech and a free press.
~ Anne Royall
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
~ Igor Stravinsky
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
~ John Cale
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?
~ Julian Assange
There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.
~ Lenny Bruce
Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.
~ Hugo Black
I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.
~ Dave Bautista