Escape Artist

Famous quotes containing the words escape and/or artist:

“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

“Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)