“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
Nadine Gordimer, "The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility" http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/gordimer85.pdf, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of Michigan (12 October 1984), p. 9 <br class="br">Misattributed
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James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
Regarding his latest art exhibition, as quoted in The Age http://www.theage.com.au/ (30 June 2010). <br class="br">2010s
“Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.”
Ilya Kabakov (1933) Soviet and American conceptual artist
Quoted in: Kelly Rae Roberts (2008). Taking Flight: Inspiration And Techniques To Give Your Creative Spirit Wings. p. 35
“This freedom is what makes Street Art unique”
Clandestine Culture (1970) American artist
http://artdistricts.com/clandestine-culture-between-street-art-and-social-activism/
Context: I can find inspiration from the Renaissance to the contemporary artists, but definitely the most influential movement in my career has been Street Art. The importance of Street Art comes from the fact that this art is available to everyone anywhere, is made from any media using any technique. Street Art lets you do whatever you want in the way you want and do it without asking anybody. This freedom is what makes Street Art unique.
“Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art “lives” where absolute freedom is.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 156
Context: Whether or not we can get together, remember well that art “lives” where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind (if there is such a verbal substance) perfectly unaware of its own working, with the “self” vanishing nowhere, the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist
Source: 1950s, The painter and the audience' (1954), p. 108
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918), Ch. V: Government and Law, p. 75