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2. “We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.”
Langston Hughes
Art, Identity, Self-expression, Racial Pride, Artistic Freedom
4. “Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.” Allen Ginsberg Creativity, Self-expression, Artistic Freedom, Personal Liberation, Authentic Art, Philosophical Insight
5. “The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.” William Blake Society, Conformity, Genius, Critique, Artistic Freedom, Philosophical Observation
17. “I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.” Charles Bukowski Poetic Creation, Artistic Freedom, Personal Expression, Poetry, Art, Creativity
21. “Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as ‘good’ and other sorts as ‘bad’ is fearful behavior.” Stephen King Fearless Writing, Creative Authenticity, Overcoming Fear, Writing Styles, Self-expression, Artistic Freedom
Artistic Freedom Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.”
Langston Hughes Art, Identity, Self-expression, Racial Pride, Artistic Freedom
4. “Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.”
Allen Ginsberg Creativity, Self-expression, Artistic Freedom, Personal Liberation, Authentic Art, Philosophical Insight
5. “The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.”
William Blake Society, Conformity, Genius, Critique, Artistic Freedom, Philosophical Observation
17. “I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.”
Charles Bukowski Poetic Creation, Artistic Freedom, Personal Expression, Poetry, Art, Creativity
21. “Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as ‘good’ and other sorts as ‘bad’ is fearful behavior.”
Stephen King Fearless Writing, Creative Authenticity, Overcoming Fear, Writing Styles, Self-expression, Artistic Freedom
