Artistic Solace Quotes

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)

My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.

The arts are the hospitals for our souls.

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always came from books and literature.

For me, the arts has always been sort of my saving grace.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.

I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.