"Creating art provides me with great joy.  It helps me survive one more day, one more week, one more month.  Art is my life raft, my panacea, my cure-all.  Simply put art is my necessity, because I have nothing else.  Art is me.  It has to be, or else I will die; be it mentally or physically.  Art keeps me alive.  It keeps me focused.  It gives me purpose.  It is my love, my mistress, my wife, my best friend, my therapist, and my salvation.  In a deeply ironic fashion, the very hardship that life in a schizophrenic state and agoraphobic isolation presents has forced my subconscious and unconscious minds to marry and give birth to a solution for survival.  Which is something I never could have produced on a conscious level.  What a miracle!"

by "L"