Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

-Feininger, Lyonel
  Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

Come sleep,O sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low.

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
Astrophel and Stella, sonnet 39.

So writing ismy sole remaining vice.It is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness,VI.'On Being A Self Forever'.