Abuse Quote by Aldous Huxley

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is…

— Aldous Huxley

I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the more violent…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a…

— Alanis Morissette

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as…

— Amy Hill

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

— Lawrence Durrell

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

— Scott Avett

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about…

— Jessie Mueller

Even if I made pornography, the trauma would show, though. It will always be there because it's my verité. It's my kind of narrative,…

— Lav Diaz

TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.

— Yvonne Strahovski