arts and goverment restriction I agree with the statement that there should be no government restriction on creative artists who express themselves and they must be given freedom. Expression has always been important in a person’s life. Creativity is the source of arts. Creative artists play an important role in our society and history. Air is to us what freedom is to artists .Hence,restrictions will make their works senseless. For example, the masterpieces--<HongLouMeng>written by the world-renowned artists Cao Xueqin, one of the greatest writter in Chinese literature, is about love and life in Qing dynasty. But this book is forbidden by the emperors of Qing dynesty for hundred of years. However the value of the work should not be buried by government. A similar phenomenon can be seen elsewhere. The tragedy “Burn books and bury the literati in pits” in Chinese history launched by Emperor Qin Shihuang, who buried the Confucian scholars alive and prohibited the dissemination of Confucian. It is really a loss of the culture of China. In a word, history proves that only when a government encourages people to express their own idea and thought freely, can its country make progress and prosper. Archmedes said: Give me a place to stand,I can move the earth. I think we should give the artists freedom, so they will give us wonderful works.