You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The way, applicable in our non-revolutionary societies, to prepare for the time when everyone will read, is to pose problems in the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“He thought he vomited out his soul. If ghosts were made of ectoplasm and ghosts were basically souls without bodies, then it… — Buan Boonaca Copy Share Image
Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get… — Donald O'Connor Copy Share Image
As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
"Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock -… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
That catharsis is really the core of the incredibly personal comedy of Louis C.K. or Marc Maron or whatever. And look -… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
I had invited 50 or 60 peers and friends, most of whom were parents, to see the film [Trust], and I asked… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
