Quotes About Art

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I write songs for myself, but I never keep them. I'm like, 'O.K., that was my therapy - it's out of my body now. I'm going to give it to somebody else so it can be their therapy, too.'

My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films.

I started making art with art therapy. It's what I know how to do. I got a lot of criticism for that when I was in school. But I think it works for me.

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.

With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by.

Acting, for me, was kind of a way of survival, honestly. I'm the baby boy out of four different sisters, and I grew up in a house with so many different personalities that acting was the only way to not go to therapy.

Coloring is relaxing even for adults - and cheap therapy.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

I guess, for me, the therapy is walking on stage, playing all of our songs, and walking out. That's probably my therapy. That's a good time.

Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.

It is like therapy to write and have people connect with it. That's the kind of music I connect with most.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

I've always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I've always found there's a power when you write something that can have its own interpretation - although I'm not being intentionally evasive.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's cheaper than therapy.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

I paint very quickly. And it just, it almost comes out of me like it's almost my therapy.

It is, writing music is like therapy for me, it's like writing everything down in a diary. It's my way of getting all my emotions and feelings out on paper.

I've always felt like writing and creating music is similar to therapy, because you're spending days, weeks, months reflecting on yourself and your life and trying to process everything and express those feelings out loud. It can be incredibly cathartic and healing.

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art.