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

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

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"The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Isolation, Mortality, Existence, Life, Death

"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Isolation, Loneliness, Society, Self

"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"I can't go outside, I know to much to be out there and I had never liked people."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Isolation, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"She walked in somber seclusion, unable to connect with women despite her heart's desire to do so while being shadowed by men who hungered for the indefinable; and while she yearned for friendship, they yearned for something more and what she had been in search of remained removed from her, and the more she erected barriers, the more they crossed them and each time they did, she turned from them and hid."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Isolation, Stillness, Ocean, Time

"If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost."

Ally Condie, American Author

Isolation, Escape, Mystery, Freedom

"This woman's size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face."

David W. Earle, American Author

Isolation, Protection, Imprisonment, Soul, Sadness

"I hate most people. And I don't want to, it's an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It's repulsive, because one's life consists of people, not things."

Morrissey, British Singer

Isolation, Humanity, Emotion, Books

"All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Isolation, Loneliness, Solitude, Realization, Emotion

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Painting

"A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object."

Painting

"I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient."

Self

"I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself."

People

"I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me."

Nothing

"In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute."

Art

"I think words come between the spectator and the picture."

Art

"I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing."

Old

"In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like."

Thought

"A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy."

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