Escape Artist

Famous quotes containing the words escape and/or artist:

“what can he do to escape that fatal Mama—”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

“[The pleasures of writing] correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading, the bliss, the felicity of a phrase is shared by writer and reader: by the satisfied writer and the grateful reader, or—which is the same thing—by the artist grateful to the unknown force in his mind that has suggested a combination of images and by the artistic reader whom his combination satisfies.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)