Active listening in psychotherapy is the basic step to accept information and is the most fundamental component to induce the best outcomes in therapeutic session. This research focuses on how art therapy collect information through the act of active listening and gaze. For this, terminology of describing the act of listening (hearing), and the dictionary definition of active listening were searched. Based on the classifications of active listening and its intrinsic values in Collins(2006) and Wei?ß, Kleer & Engel(2011), a variety types of active listening and its theoretical backgrounds were found and explained the role of a therapist. Various types of how Art therapy accepts the visual information of an individual has searched to prove how Art therapy could be analogous to active listening in psychotherapy through observation process. Different from traditional studies of psychotherapy, Art therapy can receive both visual and auditory information from an individual. Therefore, this research suggested Ansehendes Zuh?ren; active listening of observing visual outcomes and Zuh?rendes Ansehen: observing active listening as a basic technique to collect information. In conclusion, the combined technique of ‘Ansehendes Zuh?ren’ and ‘Zuh?rendes Ansehen’ is an appropriate approach to understand the process of collecting information in art therapy. Therefore, this research expects to provide a theoretical foundation to understand the attitudes of active listening in accordance with Art therapy.