Artist Quote by Michele Cassou

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

— Lucien Bourjeily

Energy and art go where they will.

— Jerry Saltz

Art can be political, but when it becomes politicized, the purity is ruined.

— Dana Loesch

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a…

— Adrienne Rich

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

— Sam Francis

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

In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos…

— Max Lerner

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

— Morgan Parker

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

— Peter Weiss

“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

“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that…

— Jennifer Birkett

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

— Anonymous