Inspiring Quotes

This page will be full of inspiring quotes about how different kinds of art can bring healing.
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"I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem." Marilyn Hacker.

"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends." Alphonse de Lamartine.


"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection." Oscar Wilde.


"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." Charlie Parker.

"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life." John Lubbock.

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music." Billy Joel.

"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without." Confucius.

"Music is the shorthand of emotion." Leo Tolstoy.

“The arts, as media of the imagination, are disciplines which give form and substance to our capacity to be who we are. Each artistic medium embodies the imagination in a concrete and specific way.”Stephen K. Levine

"Art was made to overcome chaos." Don Jones.

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." Pablo Picasso.

"Art is not the thing, it is the way." Jolie Buchanan.

"Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue." Henri Matisse.


"Creativity knows no language." Unknown.

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