Art Quote by Semir Zeki

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Anonymous

Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.

— Varun Grover

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

“Self-censorship can be very damaging to a story. When our chief goal is not to offend someone, we are not likely to write a…

— Katherine Paterson

Society develops a type of self-censorship, with the knowledge that surveillance exists - a self-censorship that is even expressed when people communicate with each…

— Julian Assange

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.

— Charles Bukowski

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

— Anonymous

The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

— Felice Picano

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

But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or…

— Rebecca West

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