Chris Cornell Quotes

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.