The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?
Interpretation
Healing through art is a shared experience; if the creator can't heal, how can the audience benefit?
In this quote, Maynard James Keenan emphasizes the profound connection between an artist's personal healing process and the impact their art can have on others. The act of creation is not just a solitary pursuit; it is an interactive journey where the artist's struggles and growth resonate with the audience, suggesting that art has the power to heal both the creator and the consumer.
In practice
In a workshop about art therapy, this quote can be used to inspire participants about the healing potential of their own artistic endeavors.
If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.
Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.
Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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