Alive Quote by Alvin Langdon Coburn

I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

— Ai Weiwei

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

— Joyce Carol Oates

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in…

— Stanley Elkin

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

— Robert Smithson

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

— Antony Gormley

Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art.…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able to paint…

— Kathryn Bigelow

I believe all of us should have the freedom to have our personal take on how art affects us.

— Parvathy

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so…

— El Lissitzky

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

— George Oppen

Art should not have to be a certain way,

— Willem de Kooning

“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman