Jordi Molla Quotes

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

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.

When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

I think of myself as a healing artist.

You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

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

I truly believe the eating disorder is gone. The discovery of what was at the bottom of it lifted me, and I walked into a different phase of my life.

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.

For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.