"Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness."
- Glenn Gould
Photo: Yousuf Karsh, 1957
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- Glenn Gould
Photo: Yousuf Karsh, 1957
@holdengraber
"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
- Honoré de Balzac
Auguste Rodin, Study for the Head of the Monument to Honoré de Balzac, 1893-1897
The Cleveland Museum of Art
@ClevelandArt
- Honoré de Balzac
Auguste Rodin, Study for the Head of the Monument to Honoré de Balzac, 1893-1897
The Cleveland Museum of Art
@ClevelandArt
"If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die."
- Nelson Mandela
Photo: Mark Seliger
- Nelson Mandela
Photo: Mark Seliger
"Remember, there are only three tempi in jazz – slow, medium and slow."
- Ben Webster
Solitude, from Big Ben Time, 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=VihgeOi0Rn8&feature=emb_logo">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ben Webster
Solitude, from Big Ben Time, 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=VihgeOi0Rn8&feature=emb_logo">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
André Kertész
Fork, Paris, 1928
"He had a life in which he isolated himself from things that benefitted him, but it was a solitude from which he drew great strength."
- David Travis
Fork, Paris, 1928
"He had a life in which he isolated himself from things that benefitted him, but it was a solitude from which he drew great strength."
- David Travis
"The reader, the thinker, the loiterer, the flaneur are as much figures of epiphany as the opium eater, the dreamer, the drinker. And more profane. Not to mention that most fearful drug - ourselves - which we imbibe in solitude."
- Walter Benjamin
Photo: Ferdinando Scianna, 1983
- Walter Benjamin
Photo: Ferdinando Scianna, 1983
"The few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude."
- Colette
Paris, 1935
#Caturday
- Colette
Paris, 1935
#Caturday
Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once.
- Robert Browning
With his son Robert Barrett in Venice, 1889
Peopled at once.
- Robert Browning
With his son Robert Barrett in Venice, 1889
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Caricature by Wilhelm Busch
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Caricature by Wilhelm Busch
Another Glenn Gould quote:
"Solitude fuels creativity, whereas brotherly camaraderie tends to dissipate it. Isolation is the one sure way to happiness."
Photo: Erich Lessing, 1957
"Solitude fuels creativity, whereas brotherly camaraderie tends to dissipate it. Isolation is the one sure way to happiness."
Photo: Erich Lessing, 1957
"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."
- Marcel Proust
Design: David Pearson
- Marcel Proust
Design: David Pearson
"The idleness of society is deadly because it is obligatory; the idleness of solitude is delightful because it is free & voluntary."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions
French playing card by Pinau, 1792
Sage (roi) de trèfles / King of Clubs
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions
French playing card by Pinau, 1792
Sage (roi) de trèfles / King of Clubs
"The prophet seeks out solitude. . . . He goes into the desert to think. Of what? Of the multitudes."
- Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare
Caricature by B. Moloch, 1882
- Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare
Caricature by B. Moloch, 1882
"The world wishes to tear everyone from, and restore everyone to, himself."
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, The Book of Friends
Gustave Moreau
Solitude
Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, The Book of Friends
Gustave Moreau
Solitude
Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Léon Claude Vénézia
Homme sur une ancienne passerelle sur le canal de l& #39;Ourcq au niveau du passage de Flandre
Paris, XIXème arr., c. 1968
Homme sur une ancienne passerelle sur le canal de l& #39;Ourcq au niveau du passage de Flandre
Paris, XIXème arr., c. 1968
Jean Marquis
Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève et l& #39;église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont. Prise à l& #39;angle de la rue Laplace, 1963-64
Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève et l& #39;église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont. Prise à l& #39;angle de la rue Laplace, 1963-64