«Art and music touch places in the young patients where no injection can reach.»
Petula Clark, singer, songwriter and patron of the Fondation ART-THERAPIE
«Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.» Johnny Depp
«Music can build bridges where the spoken language cannot.» Valeri Gergiev, conductor and opera company director, patron oft he Fondation ART-THERAPIE
«In a peripheral hospital, paediatrics is like a safe harbour»
Dr. Valdo Pezzoli, head physician at the paediatrics department in the regional hospital of Lugano
«Art- and music therapy allow the patient to become immerged in another world.» C.B., art-therapist at University Children’s Hospital Zurich
«It is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.» D. W. Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst