Art Quote by Kenny Smith

The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego…

— Alexander Lowen

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the…

— Alex Grey

“An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.”

— Lee Simonson

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

“There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

— Ernst Junger

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with…

— Georges Rouault

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

— James Van Der Beek

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In reality, of course, it always does look after itself. All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then…

— Aldous Huxley

“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his vivid imagination,…

— Ernest Becker