Diego Luna Quotes

I think of myself as a healing artist.

I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

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

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

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.

I tend to write it and then let go emotionally.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.

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.

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

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

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

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

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.

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

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.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

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.

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

Words don't heal. Art heals!

Sometimes, like we all do, I look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes I cry. Like a really hard cry like you just watch yourself cry but then you're done and you're just glowing and you're staring at yourself.