Artistic Freedom Quotes

“I decided that what I was going to do from then on was just what I wanted to do.”

“For the first time in my life I'm making things that are altogether my own. They are not dictated by social considerations. They are not documentary. They are not propaganda. They are the realization of my own personal obsessions and feelings.”

“What is focus and who has a right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?”

“A painter paints the picture, and he paints it in the way that he wants it to be, and not in the way that other people want it to be.”

“I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about if it's going to be a hit.”

“I think it's important for artists to be artists, and to be able to create what they want to create.”

“To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.”

“It seems to me that anything is fair game in a song. I don't have any problem with anything.”

“I think it’s important to just keep making stuff and not worry too much about what people think.”

“The Vinnie Vincent Invasion was my creation, my vision. It was everything I wanted to do musically.”