ASYLUM

Noun from the Latin asylum, from the Greek ἄσυλον ( ἱερόν ), that is "(temple) where there is no right of capture (σύλη)"
In the right place of exemption (non-punishment and prohibition of capture), [also] for the offenders or the guilty

Although involuntarily we artists are committed. It is not the struggle that makes us artists, but it is the art that forces us to be fighters (I would use partisans) . By his very function the artist is the witness of freedom and this is a motivation that finds himself paying dearly. By his very function he is engaged in the most inextricable depths of history, where he suffocates the very flesh of man.

Albert Camus