If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.
Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it.'
I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.