Art Escapism Quotes

#1. One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

Art Spiegelman

#2. Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#3. Tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new. Built on spirit intent of heart, and ideals based on truth.

Tupac Shakur

#4. The squall has ceased to be a cause of my complaint. The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when the night has fallen, I, delivered, shall read my course in the stars.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#5. We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#6. Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Chuck D

#7. I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.

Art Spiegelman

#8. I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

Saul Williams

#9. That's bad luck: three on a midget.

Groucho Marx

#10. Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

James Rozoff

#11. Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

Rollo May

#12. For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

Iggy Azalea

#13. You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a poem or a tale that brings beauty into the world. You are set free whenever you love - even those who believe you're crazy.

Jef Murray

#14. If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn - we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

John Newton

#15. But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#16. Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.

Erich Fromm

#17. He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#18. I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death ... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

Ansel Adams

#19. I've always been opinionated, unfortunately, to my mother's disappointment.

Nina Garcia

#20. Art is subjective and art as a form of entertainment escapism is as high art as any.

Miranda Hart

#21. It was a rude and simple society and there were no laws to punish a starving man for expressing his need for food, such as have been established in a more humanitarian age; and the lack of any organised police permitted such persons to pester the wealthy without any great danger.

G.K. Chesterton