The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
Be a witness, as I excersize my exorcism
Just in case, though, I stormed into my apartment, tossed a quick hello to Mr. Wong, then rummaged through my entertainment center to lay out all my exorcism equipment. I kept it in my entertainment center because exorcisms were nothing if not entertaining.
Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.
Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.
When jobs come up, like a low-budget film like The Last Exorcism, you say yes and you see where it takes you.
If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.
One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.
There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home. . . Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.
I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently resolved in terms of what allowed it to be manipulated. The will must have done something to surrender to the presence of the demon. You have to resurrect the moral authority of the person's will.
