Lindsey Buckingham Quotes

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

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.

My painting does not come from the easel.

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

I start a picture and I finish it.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

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

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

I think my becoming a writer had much to do with spending a chunk of each year sitting by myself out in a tent without radio, without newspapers, without a whole lot of people to interact with, without anybody having any sort of similar background to me.