Artistic Solitude Quotes

I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

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

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.

I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt are desolately beautiful. Few other people go there. I am gloriously alone, unmolested, and absorbed in attempting to see what I am looking at.

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.

I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page — do they want someone to write on it?

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?