Art Quote by Varun Grover Download Open image “Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.” — Varun Grover ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Devastating Most Thing
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 Copy Share Image
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Although I don't believe in censorship, I believe an artist is very responsible for his actions. Especially if he's a young artist whom young… — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding… — Hollis Alpert Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
People who are privileged can take more risks because of that safety shield that privilege provides. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
We critique all politicians who are in power, whenever there's a talking point. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don't do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a self-image. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't… — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
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