Artistic Escape Quotes

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

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen. I wouldn't pay attention in school, or I'd sing in class and get in trouble - I'd always get in trouble. Theater is the only thing I always came back to.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony, or you can watch the Marx Brothers, and this will give you a pleasant escape for a while. And that is about the best that you can do.

The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

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

I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

I couldn't even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn't let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn't stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

But if I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I'd choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Music was my one way to vent.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.