James Hillman Quotes

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.

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

Words don't heal. Art heals!

In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

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

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I think of myself as a healing artist.

In 'Art as Therapy', we argue that art is a tool that can variously help to inspire, console, redeem, guide, comfort, expand and reawaken us.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

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.

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

I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.

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.

It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe