Diane Paulus Quotes

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.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth.

At one moment, I thought that if I didn't do a picture in a certain way, then it wasn't a 'Mario Testino Picture.' And I've realized that Mario Testino is everything, Mario Testino is whatever he feels like being, because it always ends up looking like me, whatever I do.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

It's actually very freeing to be given permission as an artist to let that ride and to really let it ride, to actually experience it and bring it out of you. It's been uncomfortable and it's freeing at the same time.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's the most liberating thing about being an artist.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

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

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

I'd been so heavily influenced by Em, but artists that don't grow out of that don't go anywhere. Ultimately, I came to understand that what Eminem stood for above all else was 'be yourself.'

'Meenaxi' was a lesson in liberation. It taught me to be a free spirit and understand the pleasure of my work by being different people, just like Meenaxi is.

I just want to feel free. If someone feels inspired by it, then fine.

I really hope to give to other people who are listening to my music the same thing that it's done for me, which is make me feel more free and more accepting of myself.

Rather than deliberately trying to draw something, use something you yourself like and want to draw, and I think the characters that come out of that will really have their own individuality.

So my reason for doing drag, at first it was because I wanted to express this thing I had kind of stored deep down inside of me and now that I've let this thing loose, this monster out into the world and I kind of got that out of my system now.

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...

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