Quotes About Art

Dancing absolutely is therapeutic!

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

I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social and political - everything. It has many layers. But art has to have many layers. If it doesn't, then forget it.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to forget the confusion that persists about what it's really for.

Psychodrama' is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways.

Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.

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.

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

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.

My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.

I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.

Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.