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You Don’t Approach Art With Your Brain
You don’t look at art to understand it but to let it educate your imagination, teach you how to see your life. — Thomas Moore
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“The creative and the healing elements are very close.”
“A special problem in the profession of analysis is creativity. The best analysts are without a doubt those who, alongside their profession, are involved in some creative activity.
It is not for nothing that in primitive societies the medicine men are also the poets, painters, and the like, of their peoples. The creative and the healing elements are very close.”
— Marie Louise Von Franz,
“Psychotherapy”
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“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj
I think art and spirituality are related. Creativity and mental healing are too. When I was just getting started as an artist I had the same problem a lot of writers complain about here on Medium, something called “writer’s block.” I didn’t know how to encourage creative emotions. I wasn’t yet aware of where my natural inspirations lay. Eventually I learned to just…
