Brian Stelfreeze Quotes

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.

I loved the idea of dramatic art of storytelling as a way to make sense of things. It's really what I love and what I care about.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

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 have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

I write what I see; I paint what I am.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.