Adrian Tomine Quotes

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

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

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

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

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.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

The muses visit when I'm lonely.

When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems, things that can liberate my human condition, that make me go away... I spend a lot of the time doing nothing, just concentrating on the subject. Sometimes I'll sit in my chair for two or three hours without doing anything.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating 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.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet.