Fernando Botero Quotes

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

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

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

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.

Music should be your escape.

The music has a very strong escapist quality to it. In the moment where you feel like you need to escape, or when you are escaping, that's a good time to listen to 'When the Night.'

Art class was my safe haven.

Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been.

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

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.

Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me.

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

I just absolutely needed the theatre so desperately - it was my fate; it was where I was running towards. It was the place where I found peace and survival and all kinds of things.

Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.

My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.

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

It was actually books that started to make those pockets of freedom, which I hadn't otherwise experienced. I do see them as talismans, as sacred objects. I see them as something that will protect me, I suppose, that will save me from things that I feel are threatening. I still think that; it doesn't change. It doesn't change, having money, being successful. So from the very first, if I was hurt in some way, then I would take a book -- which was very difficult for me to buy when I was little -- and I would go up into the hills, and that is how I would assuage my hurt.

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.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

Art offers sanctuary to everyone willing to open their Hearts as well as their Eyes.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.