Art Therapy Quotes

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people.

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

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

For art to be art it has to cure.

When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it's a good time to start painting.

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

Art matters.

I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can come up with a creative activity that will help us out." I'm like, "Let's get out the pens! Draw a picture of how much you hate me!"

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

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

My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

I was really aware, even while it was happening, that the discovery of arts education in my life sort of saved my life.

I think there's no greater healing power than music.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

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.

I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.