“Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.”

“Mass culture is a way to escape from the psychological suffering that comes with that insight into the human condition, an escape alternative to the one preached by world religions. Mass culture is a modern invention to escape from existential anguish.”

“You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.”

“How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.”

“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.”

“To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.”

“Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.”

“I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.”

“I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.”

“Asceticism may offer a way of escape from the temptations that come from association with one's fellows and bring a sense of release and contentment. But the universal family can never be built by hermits. Contact may lead to contamination, but it is essential to redemption. Love never flees from the object of its affection. Where pain is most severe and sorrow most bitter, there love is most solicitous and untiring.”