Art Psychotherapy Quotes & Sayings

Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness. — Cloe Madanes

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work. — Janet Frame

The body must be loosely clad if the mind is to forget it and impetuously lead its own life. — George Santayana

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity. — Criss Jami

Only someone who doesn't understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can't be graded, because it's going to mean something different to everyone. You can't apply a mathematical absolute to art because there is no one formula for self-expression. — Kevin Smith

Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first. — Herman Melville

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend. — John W. Snow

Swung his arm and chopped the wolf's head from its body, so that it immediately died. As soon as he could raise his axe another wolf came up, and he also fell under the sharp edge of — L. Frank Baum

I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179) — Jonathan Kellerman

It is nought good a sleping hound to wake. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Psychotherapy is an art enlightened by wisdom, theory and research. — Barbara Temaner Brodley

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) — Jonathan Kellerman