Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
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.
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.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.