Creative Therapy Quotes

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

I began to paint again, even though I could barely hold the brush, but knowing exactly what I wanted to paint, I began three more large canvases... of large wheat fields under cloudy skies, and it did not take a great deal to express sadness and loneliness... I believe these paintings say what words cannot.

I wanted to be a singer, of course, but there was something about the songwriting, then and now, that is the most important thing. It's how I express myself, how I express how I see things. When I see people struggling with emotions and feelings and don't know how to put it down, I'm able to do that. It's really like a therapy, and it's like a buddy and a friend. It's a way out of a lot of things.

I went to college for, like, a year and a half with the intention of doing some kind of art therapy or some kind of teaching of art, because I feel like art is a more free area in school than music is. I feel like music is too mathematic for me. Music school's so hard. It's math.

Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones.

I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

The arts saved my life.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

I write for myself. It's therapy.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

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

I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper. It's just been such a blessing for me my whole life to get my feelings out there in a positive way.

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.

When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.