A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
Entertainment and art are not isolated.
An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.
It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.
Artists are like everybody else.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
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