Escape Artist

Famous quotes containing the words escape and/or artist:

“The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)