Sophia Bush Quotes

I always do what the character demands, and I love to experiment with my looks.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

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!

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

I feel like when I'm on stage, when I'm writing songs, singing songs, I'm in the studio, I'm shooting videos, I kind of get to become this character, and I can make that whatever I want to make that.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.