Carly Schroeder Quotes

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 had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought, in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

Rap helps me connect emotionally.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

I feel fairly certain that my painting skills might not be best shown on 'Dancing with the Stars.' I'll have to come up with another way to showcase that side of me.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

Painting, music, photography, and visual art have been creative forms of expression for me for decades.

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.

Composing is an emotional thing.

I always liked the idea that you can put something in you onto a canvas or a piece of paper and have it exist there and not inside you. It's a way to control things.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.