Art Healing Quotes

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

No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools.
Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life. ~ H. E. Davey, Japanese Yoga: The Way Of Dynamic Meditation

Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art ... It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world. ~ Joanna Macy

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing. ~ Samuel Hahnemann

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We are beings emanating energy of multiple colors and sounds of Light. ~ Jacqueline Ripstein

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. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as with the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part in it is sickly. ~ Apollonius Of Tyana

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation. ~ Benjamin Rush

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing. ~ Richard Selzer

Art is a wound turned into light. ~ Georges Braque

In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance. Awareness that dance is not just entertainment but also a form of education and healing may reverse the trend. ~ Judith Lynne Hanna

The big art is our life. ~ Mary Caroline Richards

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness. ~ Barbara Jordan

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

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. ~ James Polshek

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art. ~ Judith Martin

Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life and death, and therefore they alone could practice the magical art of healing ... The emergence of women whose consciousness blends with the ancient themes of healing is the single most promising event in health care ... ~ Jeanne Achterberg

Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals. ~ Mehmet Oz

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here. ~ Paddy Mitchell

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning. ~ Eric Jensen

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed. ~ Charles Eisenstein

In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say. ~ Kathleen Hanna

Just because it's jewellery it doesn't mean we have to clam up and be well-behaved. ~ Lisa Walker

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling. ~ Gore Vidal

No one forced you to fall in love, you chose them. And no one is forcing you to stay. You can let go whenever you want. It's your choice. Don't let the fear of starting over stop you from letting go. Choose peace over pain. ~ Keishorne Scott

If I were free, as a physician, to say what I pleased, I would tell every abused person I see that there is an entire world out there that is nothing like the one you're living. Go discover it. ~ C. Kennedy

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation ~ Alija Izetbegovic

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all. ~ Neil Gaiman

I love you," Sean whispered when they parted.
Gazing into his eyes, her heart overflowed with happiness, and there was something more-a feeling of completeness she'd never experienced before. Just like her character Shay, who'd found her soul mate in Jared, Kayla had found hers in Sean.
Life had imitated art in the best possible. ~ Alison Packard

There is a great amity between designing and art. ~ Joseph Addison

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art. ~ Eyvind Kang

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. ~ George Washington

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies. ~ Mel Gibson

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas. ~ Paloma Faith

Echo continued to tap her finger to her chin and created more dots on her face while she stared at the canvas. The intensity of her stare shocked me.
The art teacher stacked the bowls and walked toward the door. "She's in the zone. Good luck getting her attention. Do me a favor. If she ends up painting her whole face, grab my camera from my desk and take a picture. I'll add it to my collection." She gazed at Echo and smiled. "I'll title that one Smurf. Nice tats, by the way." ~ Katie McGarry

Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice. ~ Ove Arup

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid. The future will choose the pages it prefers. It's not up to me to make the choice. I have the impression that the time is speading on past me more and more rapidly. I'm like a river that rolls on, dragging with it the trees that grow too close to its banks or dead calves one might have thrown into it or any kind of microbes that develop in it. I carry all that along with me and go on. It's the movement of painting that interests me, the dramatic movement from one effort to the next, even if those efforts are perhaps not pushed to their ultimate end. In some of my paintings I can say with certainty that the effort has been brought to its full weight and its conclusion, because there I have been able to stop the flow of time around me. I have less and less time, and yet I have more and more to say, and what I have to say is,increasingly, something about what goes on in the movement of my thought. I've reached the moment, you see, when the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself. ~ Francoise Gilot

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste. ~ Gianni Versace

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. ~ Jacqueline Bisset

Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity. ~ Jonathan Mayhew

The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred. ~ Kano Jigoro

Art dulls the terror of the void better than anything else. ~ Charles Baudelaire

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. ~ Michelangelo

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist. ~ Henri Bergson

End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island ~ C.B. Murphy

Love sustains us in our challenges, in our search for truth, in our quest for happiness. ~ Jerry L. Ainsworth

I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness ... Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman. ~ Alan Moore

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win ~ Bill Vaughan

Congress displayed contempt for the city's residents, yet it retained a fondness for buildings and parks. In 1900, the centennial of the federal government's move to Washington, many congressmen expressed frustration that the proud nation did not have a capital to rival London, Paris, and Berlin. The following year, Senator James McMillan of Michigan, chairman of the Senate District Committee, recruited architects Daniel Burnham and Charles McKim, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to propose a park system. The team, thereafter known as the McMillan Commission, emerged with a bold proposal in the City Beautiful tradition, based on the White City of Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition. Their plan reaffirmed L'Enfant's avenues as the best guide for the city's growth and emphasized the majesty of government by calling for symmetrical compositions of horizontal, neoclassical buildings of marble and white granite sitting amid wide lawns and reflecting pools. Eventually, the plan resulted in the remaking of the Mall as an open lawn, the construction of the Lincoln Memorial and Memorial Bridge across the Potomac, and the building of Burnham's Union Station. Commissioned in 1903, when the state of the art in automobiles and airplanes was represented by the curved-dash Olds and the Wright Flyer, the station served as a vast and gorgeous granite monument to rail transportation. ~ Zachary M. Schrag

The body is a self-healing organism, so it's really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself. ~ Barbara Brennan

The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true. ~ Harold Monro