Emma Walton Hamilton Quotes

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in a lot of small ways that that wasn't the case. It's sort of a mixed blessing. My mind is like a puppy. It goes all over. I guess writing fiction was a way of harnessing that. I could hook a puppy up to a treadmill and get something out of it.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

I need theatre for my equilibrium because in theatre, the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity; you are more independent.

I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.