Manhattan Arts International
Healing Power of Art
Positive Art
That Uplifts The Spirit
We hope you enjoyed this online exhibition we presented through October 19, 2010.
We are in the process or planning our next Celebrate The Healing Power of ART for 2012.
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Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery."
~ Florence Nightingale
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works: if from the head, almost nothing."
~ Marc Chagall
"Art is not a thing but a Moving Spirit."
~ George Innes
"A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis."
~ Hans Hofmann
"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."
~ Grandma Moses
"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art.
It is the color of love."
~ Marc Chagall
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.
~ Paul Klee
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We believe:
Art is a natural force that promotes heath and well-being for the creator as well as the viewer.
Art has transformative powers to change a person’s outlook and the way they experience the world.
Art can affect a person’s physiology impacting brain wave patterns and the nervous system.
Art can alter the cells in the body and it has the power to promote healing. It can strengthen a person’s immune system.
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