Susan Vreeland Quotes

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

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

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

For me, art is like a big support group, where you go and meet people who think the same way, and you go, 'Okay, I'm not nuts.'

I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.

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.

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

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

Art saved my life.

I think the toughest phase of life is over, and I don't wish it on anyone. My family has gone through a lot, and I don't want to dwell on the past.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

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

... 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.

Art is a form of catharsis.

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

For art to be art it has to cure.

The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

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.