“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
“My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
“Action is the antidote to despair.”
“I believe that most of us construct a merciful deception between ourselves and the consequences of our existence in order that we do not succumb to despair.”
“To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.”
“An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.”