Art Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

— Howard Hodgkin

Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.

— Mabel

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

— Henry Miller

As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I…

— Zhang Xiaogang

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

— Joni Mitchell

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

— Deborah Solomon

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

— Steve Wozniak

I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails…

— Katherine Mansfield

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

— Jack Levine