Analysts Quote by Gregory Crewdson

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my…

— Jessica Lange

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

— Anonymous

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers,…

— Janet Malcolm

I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.

— Du Yun

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

— Peter Gay

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

— Alex Grey

My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel,…

— Nick Flynn

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

— P. J. Harvey

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their…

— Amor Towles

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

— Sandra Bernhard