Escape Artist

Famous quotes containing the words escape and/or artist:

“You don’t resign from these jobs, you escape from them.”
—Dawn Steel (b. 1946)

“If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)