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“Expressive arts therapy--the purposeful application of art, music, dance/movement, dramatic enactment, creative writing, and imaginative play--is a non-verbal way of self-expression of feelings and perceptions. More importantly, they are action-oriented and tap implicit, embodied experiences of trauma that can defy expression through verbal therapy or logic.”
― Cathy A. Malchiodi, Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process

“That music can connect us. There is joy in the world.”
― Agnes Laurens

“Art that you produce alone is only art. Art that you produce together is a reality.”
― Mada Jurado

“Always thought being a writer would be one of the most useless things you could be in a zombie apocalypse, but it turns out arts and culture and storytelling is what helps us get through. Along with science, doctors, nurses, delivery people, farm workers and supermarket cashiers.”
― Lauren Beukes

“The world today is indebted to us for the benefits of civilization. They stole our arts and sciences from Africa. Then why should we be ashamed of ourselves?”
― Marcus Garvey, Emancipated From Mental Slavery: Selected Sayings of Marcus Garvey

“Be braver. Be more honest. Don’t hold onto what you knew in the past. Artists are meant to express what other people cannot. That is why an artist, of any type, is given a privileged position in society. They are meant to inspire and we are very reliant on inspiration to help us in our lives. You cannot inspire if you are not honest. What is honest for you now will take more courage to carry and hold than it did in the past.”
― Donna Goddard, Together

“We create art, and those artworks shape us into what we are. We, as human beings, are capable of creating art. Or, perhaps, because of these arts, we have the capacity to become humans humanely.”
― Ashmita Acharya, Art Adventure: Visual Arts

“This feature is reminiscent in my opinion, of certain features of some paintings, where each part reflects other parts and even the whole, with regard to colour, form, composition and other elements which go to make up the picture.

The above idea of the infinite shows already the breakdown of the notion that the world can be divided into separately existing parts. For already, even in this very simple view, an essential aspect of what each part is that it reflects the other parts.

The further extension of the idea of infinity to time leads to an even more radical change. Here, what is suggested is to reverse the usual idea of first imagining time and then saying that things exist and move in time. Rather, we begin with existence and process, and say that time is the order in this process. Thus we define each time concretely as the 'time when' such and such existed, or changed, and each position as the 'place where' it was etc. to carry such a view consistently, we should begin with the concept of totality, which is infinite and eternal. This includes all that there is, was and will be. If we knew this, we would all know reality. We would all know every concrete existent, every law(relationship) and the limits of every law. Of course, we can only select out certain aspects of this totality. Each science reflects some aspect, the arts another, the poet another and so on...”
― David Bohm, Bohm-Biederman Correspondence, Vol. 1: Creativity and Science

“The Arts are sisters to the senses.”
― Drema Drudge, Victorine

“Humans have historically used the arts in integrative ways, particularly within the contexts of enactment, ceremony, performance, and ritual.”
― Cathy A. Malchiodi, Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process

“Neurobiology research has taught helping professionals that we need to "come to our senses" in developing effective components for trauma intervention.”
― Cathy A. Malchiodi, Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process

“Possibly the most compelling reason for use of the expressive arts in trauma work is the sensory nature of the arts themselves; their qualities involve visual, tactile, olfactory, auditory, vestibular, and proprioceptive experiences.”
― Cathy A. Malchiodi, Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process

“There is no poetic art like praying.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I think part of the reason escapism is a predominate aspect of American arts—especially cinema—is because that’s what’s in our DNA. Our ancestors came here to avoid whatever was happening where they were originally from. Escapism is literally in our genes.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker

“The movies often show an honest and good man winning over evil all the time. The reality is not that simple or one-sided. The fictions of movies and arts perpetuate and exploit our beliefs rather than letting us know the truth.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“Why do you paint, Akram?â€� I asked. “What—â€�

“Close your eyes, Sebastian,� he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them and tell me what you see.�

I did as he asked and answered, “Nothing, just black.�

He tilted my head a bit to the west. “Open them now and find the blessing of vision. This abundance, the explosion, the mixture of colors, the movement, life passing by� See the sun setting? What colors can you find in the sea? Surely there are blue and gray, but don’t you also see that darker gray, light green, even black? Look at the hues of the sun drowning in the sea, melting in oranges, reds, purples. Look at those trees over there. Look at the waves, at me, at your hands, the eyes of your friends. Now, must you still ask me why I paint?� Akram replied. He then left me and walked to the tip of the yacht to enjoy the sunset and the breeze.

“Artists,â€� I mumbled to myself.”
― Ahmad Ardalan, The Art Collector of Le Marais

“If you take the art train, the stations you will get off are very obvious: Thought-station; admiration station; unusualness station; universality-station; ecstasy-station!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Traveling changes not just a man, but his art as well.”
― Henry Johnson Jr.

“The pulse of the age must be sought elsewhere: in the minor decorative arts, in the lines of ornament, in lettering, and so on.”
― Heinrich Wölfflin

“It is the integrative synergy of the arts, based on cultural traditions and current trauma-informed practice, that is requisite to addressing traumatic stress with most children, adults, families, groups, and communities.”
― Cathy A. Malchiodi, Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process

“Without the printer, there is no painting.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Without the painter, there is no painting.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In creative pursuits, we connect with the qualities of our inner being. We open up to the invisible, yet, powerful world of Spirit. It carries with it all the immensity, love, power, wisdom, beauty, and harmony of the Universe. We are part of it. We allow it to flow through us with the beautiful feeling and potency of that which supports the entire world and more. We are a channel for universal energy, passion, and soul. It is Energy which explodes into all creative activity. It is Passion which gives us courage and unlimited vision. It is Soul which moves us beyond our own limited world to see the interconnectedness of all humanity.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving

“The spiritual world is always available to us. We don’t need to make it happen. It is already here. We just need to see it; be part of it; open to it. Even a slight move in that direction is enough for Love to come rushing in. Under the influence of the Divine presence, all of our activities became more beautiful, expressive, healing, and uplifting.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Being Loving

“We don’t have desires by accident. Good desires are planted in us because we are meant to follow them, explore them, wrestle with them, and have them form us. If we do this and do it in the right way, the result is happiness. If we do anything in the right way, the result is happiness.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“Creative pursuits are most rewarding when seen as an ongoing way of being in the world. Creativity is an avenue for fulfilling one’s individual potential and a way of being of service to the world by sharing that which we love and feel drawn to. This removes the fuel from self-driven ambition and takes the steam out of competitive thinking. We lose our fear that we will not have a place and we lose the egotistical pride that, frequently, accompanies achievement. We do not cling tightly to that which is good. Nor do we overly grieve that which passes. We do not resent othersâ€� successes. Nor are we afraid to pursue our own.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“Creativity is divine.”
― Adrienne Posey

“Appreciate cultural diversity.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“God is the ultimate Master of all Arts, for He made Creation without any reference to a previous formation.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“In amongst the momentary glory and inevitable change is the unrelenting, ferocious desire to express the soul through a limited body in the hope that it can bring some peace to a painful inner and outer world.”
― Donna Goddard, Pittown