Mark Rothko Quotes

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 love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

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.

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

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

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.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

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

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

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

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

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.