Artistic Refuge Quotes

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

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

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one really believed in it until very close to the end. But it was also a sanctuary. I was working in obscurity.

I definitely always took my problems and turned them into music, and the more I can make myself feel happy, the better. But yeah, I definitely feel like music was always a place for me to, like, escape to. I just love songs that are fantasy.

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

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.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

I could always live in my art but never in my life

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

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.

My studio, nicknamed 'Funny Farm,' is in a hidden location. It's very private. Not only do I create my photography there, but it is also where I write my books and create music.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity... it's a safe enclosure.

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

Acting, the arts in general, is a magnet for the wounded of society.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.

I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever.

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.