Art Quote by Lucien Bourjeily

Even if censorship might encourage creative ways to circumvent it, it still slows down progress and our ability to realise our full creative potential.…

— Lucien Bourjeily

Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.

— Anonymous

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

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

— Alanis Morissette

One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is…

— Tom Petty

“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

The fact that we don't have censorship on the Internet really gives you a lot of freedom, as makers and creative people do what…

— Bhumi Pednekar

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

— John Paul Stevens

Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a…

— Xiaolu Guo

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is…

— Tom Petty

“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of…

— Henry Steele Commager