An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.
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