Art Therapy Quotes

“Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.”
― Eileen Miller, The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art

“Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~”
― Eileen Miller, The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art

“Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and loss of belonging in the world & through it I'll walk myself home.”
― Nikki Rowe

“In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.”
― Eileen Miller , The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art

“I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.”
― Nikki Rowe

“I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully & as carefully as you can—in some beautifully bound book. It will seem as if you were making the visions banal—but then you need to do that—then you are freed from the power of them. . . . Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book & turn over the pages & for you it will be your church—your cathedral—the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them—then you will lose your soul—for in that book is your soul.”
― C.G. Jung, Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given 1930-1934

“I make art when I can't gather the words to say.”
― Nikki Rowe

“My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful.”
― Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

“Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Would You Notice Me" is a beautifully intense read. The imagery is engaging....”the Merlot waterfall” and “confetti’d parts” lines for instance, and the the voice of the poem as a whole.”
― Mehnaz Sahibzada, My Gothic Romance

“Explored through the images of the participants is how the process of the weekly creation and reflection on the self-portrait facilitates the individual’s self-awareness regarding their current functioning and sense of well-being through emotional, spiritual and bodily awareness.”
― Laurie Ponsford-Hill, The Art of Self-Supervision: Studying the Link Between Self-Reflection and Self-Care

“Sometimes, the only way to hear yourself is to stay silent and color.”
― Gemma Ray, Garden of Tranquility: A Cozy Coloring Book for Relaxation, Meditation, Mindfulness, and Stress Relief

“Life is full of challenges. We all have them. Art has helped me through my own deep valleys.”
― Sarah Jio, All the Flowers in Paris

“In a fucked up world, creativity is our badass remedy, stitching our wounds and offering an escape route. It's not just art; it's a rebellion that saves lives and kicks the soul into healing.”
― Jenaitre Farquharson

“The British Association of Art Therapists defines art therapy as:

...a form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of communication. It is practised by qualified, registered Art Therapists who work with children, young people, adults and the elderly.[4] Clients who can use art therapy may have a wide range of difficulties, disabilities or diagnoses. These include, for example, emotional, behavioral or mental health problems, learning or physical disabilities, life-limiting conditions, brain-injury or neurological conditions and physical illness.”
― Wikipedia

“Art therapy encourages individuals to express and understand emotions, resolve issues and improve self-awareness. To express one’s self artistically can aid in the healing process by surfacing meaning. Through art there is an opportunity to connect with the unconscious which can foster increased self-awareness. Through this connection lived experience can be explored, including both positive and negative effects enabling the opportunity for healing.”
― Laurie Ponsford-Hill, The Art of Self-Supervision: Studying the Link Between Self-Reflection and Self-Care

“An important objective of self-reflection is to obtain access to the unconscious. It is understood that certain aspects of everyone are known to them, while an indeterminate number of other elements are unknown. As Erikson (1980), Freud (2010), and Kohut (1971) suggest, unknown elements of an individual’s personality significantly influence behaviour.”
― Laurie Ponsford-Hill, The Art of Self-Supervision: Studying the Link Between Self-Reflection and Self-Care

“When we produce art of any kind, it almost always contains hidden meaning: metaphors and symbols that help to identify emotions that we may feel but haven’t yet named.”
― Tammi Miller, Paperback Therapy

“,Coloring is not just art—it's therapy for the soul. Escape into a world of nature, where every stroke brings peace, and every shade tells a story.”
― James Butcher

“Trauma could be characterized as an event that waws much, too big, and happened too fast. Cars, for example, move way too fast for our nervous system. . . In the case of a motor vehicle accident, it can help to "make more time," to slow down the process to such an extent that the client can find a sequence of events he can respond to, one by one. . . Such expansion of time allows the titration completion of the embedded active motor responses, and the completion of these fight-flight impulses will settle the amygdala and turn off the alarm, because only now has the brain stem truly understood that the danger is over.

The same applies for all traumatic memories held in the body- tension in the muscles, the knot in the gut, the lump in the throat. All these are freeze responses: they are frozen motion, defensive movements we did not execute in the time of the event.”
― Cornelia Elbrecht, Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping

“Trauma could be characterized as an event that was much, too big, and happened too fast. Cars, for example, move way too fast for our nervous system. . . In the case of a motor vehicle accident, it can help to "make more time," to slow down the process to such an extent that the client can find a sequence of events he can respond to, one by one. . . Such expansion of time allows the titration completion of the embedded active motor responses, and the completion of these fight-flight impulses will settle the amygdala and turn off the alarm, because only now has the brain stem truly understood that the danger is over.

The same applies for all traumatic memories held in the body- tension in the muscles, the knot in the gut, the lump in the throat. All these are freeze responses: they are frozen motion, defensive movements we did not execute in the time of the event”
― Cornelia Elbrecht, Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping

“Art isn’t just a medium - it’s required therapy.”
― Tiffany Luard