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artistic freedom

NOUN
poetic license
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Human-rights groups criticized Gao’s conviction and sentencing as an attack on artistic freedom.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

While producers were confident the film could have been shot in Turkey despite the sensitive subject matter, Germany was chosen to illustrate the fact that threats to artistic freedom are universal.

From Barron's Feb. 15, 2026

"Maybe this will change gradually. But this much artistic freedom is okay to make the movie interesting," he said.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2025

Within the show’s parameters, Folds is grateful to the creators for giving him his artistic freedom.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2025

Is Wagner's “Parsifal” his secret laugh of superiority at himself, the triumph of his last and most exalted state of artistic freedom, of artistic transcendence—is it Wagner able to laugh at himself?

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche




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