Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

When I write I find a quiet place.

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.

We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

One is inspired only in solitude.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

Imagination is something you do alone.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

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.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

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

I need complete silence when I write.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.