“I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.” WorldMovingActorsBrainCreativeAliveLonelinessBoringBelieverCellsInevitableDroughtBrain Cells Author:Nikki Reed
“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?” IfsThinkingKindI CanFeelingsUniverseWaterCreativeGrowingLonelinessSmartOppositesBlessedBelongingBudUnfoldingAstonishmentCamaraderieBeing Blessed Author:Kathleen Moore
“I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with creation. And it is so satisfying that sometimes, I have noticed, I completely neglect my friends and my family, and they fall away.” ThinkingSometimesFallCreativeLonelinessCreationMy FamilyObsessedNeglectBe Creative Author:Tom Ford
“Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It engenders a spirit of gratitude. It develops latent talent, sharpens your capacity to reason, to act, and to find purpose in life. It dispels loneliness and heartache. It gives a renewal, a spark of enthusiasm, and zest for life.” GivingReasonHelpingJoySpiritPurposeEnjoyCreativeTalentLonelinessGratitudeCapacityEnthusiasmHeartachePurpose Of LifeSparksBe CreativeEnjoy LifeSculptureRenewalSelectLatentZestZest For Life Author:Richard G. Scott
“Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.” CreativeLearningSawsHeardLonelinessTelevisionLonelyRadioMoodNot AfraidAbrahamFranklinBeing LonelyLeonardo Author:Carl Sandburg
“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.” MindIdeasBornSecretCreativityCreativeInfluenceLonelinessSolitudeInventionThriveOriginalityIntrovertBeing AloneIntriguingCripplesCreative MindSeclusionOutside Influences Author:Nikola Tesla
“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.” MenArtistUniverseProcessDarkCreativityCreativeLonelinessStrangeDegreesUniqueScientistMysteriousUnexpectedVoidNurtureObserversWithdrawalCreative PowerMysterious Universe Author:Loren Eiseley
“Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.” WritingCharacterUniverseLanguageFunProcessPartyFictionCreativeLonelinessLonelyFinishedDrawingListsOccupationGuestsCreative ProcessSolitaryWriting FictionEavesdropping Author:Hilma Wolitzer