Anne Bradstreet Quotes

Words don't heal. Art heals!

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I think of myself as a healing artist.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

Art is a kind of illness.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.

Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

The ultimate aim of psychoanalysis is to attribute art to mental weakness, and then to trace the weakness back to the point where, according to analytic dogma, it originated namely, the lavatory.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.