If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Being alone is very difficult.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.