Craig Thompson Quotes

Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.

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.

Artists need to express.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Make good art.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

I believe in creative work.

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.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

I live, therefore I make films. I make film, therefore I live. Life. Movement. I make home movies, therefore I live. I live, therefore I make home movies.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.