Quotes About Escape

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Art still has truth. Take refuge there.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

Music takes us where words cannot.

She has given me a way out.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

Great art is an escape from the agony of why.

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world

There's no such thing as a lost cause, or a dead end. Through persistence, attitude, and creativity, there's always an escape route.

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

But they both knew that you could never run far enough or fast enough to get away from the pain completely. It was always waiting nearby

where Ariana was being kept, nor under