Body Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

— Conrad Hall

Painting is a lonely, mostly solitary act.

— Anh Do

“You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind…

— Bruce Obee

“A man becomes a solitary at the moment when, no matter what may be his external surroundings, he is suddenly aware of his own…

— Thomas Merton

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than…

— Thomas Mann

“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his…

— Emil Cioran

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in…

— Clive Thompson

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his…

— Emile M. Cioran

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself,…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose…

— Sue Halpern

“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than…

— Thomas Mann