I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.