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Art as Therapy QUOTES

Art as Therapy QUOTES

1 " Curiosity takes ignorance seriously, and is confident enough to admit when it does not know. It is aware of not knowing, and it sets out to do something about it "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

2 " When you feel sad, you are participating in a venerable experience, to which I, this monument, am dedicated. Your sense of loss and disappointment, of frustrated hopes and grief at your own inadequacy, elevate you to serious company. Do not ignore of throw away your grief "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

3 " Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

4 " The true aspiration of art should be to reduce the need for it. It is not that we should one day lose our devotion to the things that art addresses: beauty, depth of meaning, good relationships, the appreciation of nature, recognition of the shortness of life, empathy, compassion, and so on. Rather, having imbibed the ideals that art displays, we should fight to attain in reality the things art merely symbolises, however graciously and intently. The ultimate goal of the art lover should be to build a world where works of art have become a little less necessary "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

5 " We incline towards feelings of isolation and persecution because we have an unrealistic sense of how much difficulty is normal. We panic too easily, as we misjudge the meaning of our troubles. We are lonely – not that we have no one to talk to, but because those around us can’t appreciate our travails with sufficient depth, honesty and patience. This is partly because the ways we show the pain of our choppy relationships, envy or unfulfilled ambitions can easily seem pejorative and insulting. We suffer and we feel that this suffering lacks dignity "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

6 " One could be forgiven for supposing that rationality (or, more softly, ‘reasonableness’) is irrelevant – and even possibly opposed – to being a good lover. This is perhaps because we tend to think of love as a feeling, rather than as an achievement of intelligence. A reasonable or rational person is not one who is only interested in logic, or someone who tries in a cold, robotic fashion to substitute calculation and analysis for kindness or yearning. We are reasonable when we are moved by accurate explanation. Thus a reasonable person is slow to anger; they do not jump to conclusions "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

7 " ما بیشتر از اینکه نگاه رمانتیک به وقایع داشته باشیم، اغلب از تاریکی زیاد در رنجیم. ما بیش‌ازحد نسبت به مشکلات و بی‌عدالتی جهان آگاهی داریم و به طرز ناتوان‌کننده در برابر آنها احساس ضعف و کوچکی می‌کنیم. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

8 " هنر مشکلات ما را انکار نمی‌کند، از ما نمی‌خواهد شادباشیم، به ما می‌گوید که اندوه را در قرارداد زندگی نوشته‌اند. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

9 " Art builds up self-knowledge, and is an excellent way of communicating the resulting fruit to other people. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

10 " Our mortality does not call for panic, but for a sense of awe. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

11 " An important first step in overcoming defensiveness around art is to become more open about the strangeness that we feel in certain contexts. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

12 " Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

13 " We appreciate beauty more when we are aware of life’s troubles.
— 8. Henri Fantin-Latour, Chrysanthemums, 1871 "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

14 " It is when we find points of connection to the foreign that we are able to grow. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

15 " Art can do the opposite of glamourizing the unattainable; it can reawaken us to the genuine merit of life as we’re forced to lead it. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

16 " To define a mission for art, then, one of its tasks is to teach us to be good lovers: lovers of rivers and lovers of skies, lovers of motorways and lovers of stones (58). And – very importantly – somewhere along the way, lovers of people. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

17 " Among the thin birch trees and simple flowers on the rough land of the Pentland Hills is set a tablet, like an ancient tomb stone, on the base of which has been carved the resonant Latin phrase et in arcadia ego. The words are the voice of the tomb: I, death, am here, in the midst of life. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

18 " یکی از قسمت‌های شگفت‌آور تجربه‌ی هنر، قدرت گاه‌به‌گاهش در به گریه انداختن ماست، نه با تصویری ترسناک یا مخوف بلکه با اثری به زیبایی و لطافتی خاص. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

19 " برای فردی بی‌اعتقاد، جهنم صرفاً ترک مسیر رسیدن به خودی بهتر است. "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy

20 " A grasp of the psychological mechanism behind taste will not necessarily change our sense of what we find beautiful, but it can prevent us from reacting to what we don’t like with simple disparagement "

― Alain de Botton , Art as Therapy