Kathryn Harrison Quotes

Sometimes my feelings need to come out of my mouth and my head so the universe can have them. That's what the universe is there for: to take my bad thoughts away.

I love to cry. It's great.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy.

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

Acting is a form of confession.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

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.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn't get some of that stuff out.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting.

I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.