" Its kind of like disappearing from the walls of an institution, I can finally go somewhere new and unexplored."

"Painting was this wonderful escape for me because I could sit there and paint and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. " - Unknown

"I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn’t want to be a child." - Maurice Sendak