Amy Sherald Quotes

At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

The football field, I'd definitely say that's my safe place.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

When I'm on the court, I feel at peace, really. It feels like my home. I'm always thinking of something creative to do, like trick shots or something like that. It's just something about the basketball court that touches me; it makes me feel like nothing is wrong on the court.

I feel so comfortable and at home in the studio.

What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

My family is my sanctuary.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Every child should have a safe place in their life.

I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.