Art Quote by William Faulkner

So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.…

— William Faulkner

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

— Vivian Gornick

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

— Jimmy Page

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of…

— Thomas Merton

I like peace and solitude and silence.

— Carla Bruni

If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you…

— Anonymous

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive…

— Vivek Murthy

“I need some time to myself by myself! There must be time for thought and music and peace and solitude! Also: No one can…

— Pearl Cleage

“With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim

“The Soul [the Real Self] and the Gnan [True Knowledge] are always present in crowds, not in solitude. There is peace in solitude, not…

— Dada Bhagwan

The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe,…

— Philip J. Klass

An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond…a good feeling about his art.

— Robert Pinsky