Escape Artist

Famous quotes containing the words escape and/or artist:

“Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness—by making the ultimate escape from life..—No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.”
—Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)