Best creativity & solitude Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.”

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Author:Susan Cain

“Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.”

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Author:Sark

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

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Solitude is independence.”

Creativity Solitude Independence Being Alone

Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel

Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel

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

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”

Writing Creativity Loneliness Cold Solitude Oneself Introspection Abyss Being Alone Descent

Author:Franz Kafka

“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”

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Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”

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Author:Rollo May

“The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.”

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Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

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Author:Nikola Tesla

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

Creativity Impossible Solitude Being Alone

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”

Rooms Powerful Creativity Solitude Being Alone Seclusion Inspiring Writing

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.”

Thinking Real Artist Suffering Enjoy Creativity Strange Blessing Solitude Safe Conscious Curse Isolation Nurture Being Alone Singularity Real Artists

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

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