Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.

Karen Bender

Arranging Art Because Belongs Burden Experience First Giving Got Helps How Instead Longer Only Painful Powerful Second See Shape Share Stay Through Transforming Trapped Unspoken Us Within You

Related Quotes

My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.

— Karen Bender

ExcitingExperienceFirst

Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.

— Karen Bender

AnyAnythingAround

I would advise him to #1, stay in shape because it helps prevent injury, #2 would be to practice practice practice whatever position you are playing until you perfect it, and give 110% effort, and just let loose and have fun.

AdviseHelpsInjury

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

— Henrik Ibsen

ClearlyExperienceSecond

My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

— Victoria Pendleton