Best loneliness & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.”

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Book:Confessions of a conservative

Source: Confessions of a conservative

“Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.”

Sometimes Enough Artist Loneliness Lucky

Book:The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

Source: The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn

“Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.”

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Book:Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee

“Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.”

“I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.”

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Author:Cornel West

“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.”

Way Love May Soul Artist Loneliness Smoke Blazing Chimneys Wisps

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.”

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Author:Louise Bourgeois

“As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I mean: You have to look for that feeling of loneliness again. Only this way can you have something that is purely your own.”

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Author:Zhang Xiaogang

“However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.”

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Author:J. D. Salinger

“Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.”

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Author:Loren Eiseley

“I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.”

Artist Loneliness Married Lonely Supposed To Be I'm Lonely

Author:Lady Gaga

“I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and the mysterious fog that blanketed it. I could almost smell the cappuccinos I'd planned to drink in bohemian cafes or hear the indie music in the bookstores I would spend my free time in. I pictured the friends I'd make, my kindred art people, and the dorm room I was supposed to move into.”

Source: I'll Meet You There

“Estefania knew how to read an artist and their visions; her body would guide them through the melancholia and loneliness of a female body. Its unclaimed ecstasy.”

Desire Artist Loneliness Ecstasy Female Body Within Paravent Walls Melancholia

Book:Within Paravent Walls

Source: Within Paravent Walls

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

Source: Healology

“The moment before something terrible happens. This loneliness of being alone in that moment.”

Art Artist Loneliness

Book:Sirens & Muses

Source: Sirens & Muses

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