Art Quote by Henri Matisse

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

— Henri Matisse

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

— Jean Cocteau

I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they'd all be like, 'Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.' I wrote about…

— Ian Brown

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

— Armin van Buuren

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to…

— Catharine MacKinnon

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

“Every criminal would be an artist if he had the talent, and every artist would become a criminal if he had the guts.”

— Adam Langer

The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

— Truman Capote

This Life Was Not Created To Be A Prison. It Was Designed To Be A Platform For Creativity And Expression That Is Colourful And…

— Pacifiersucker

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end…

— Robert Smithson

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern