Sobhita Dhulipala Quotes

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.

Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

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.

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

Being a creative person, I want to feel the highs and the lows.

I feel that if you are a creative person, you choose various mediums to give vent to your ideas.

I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I've always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.

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

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby.