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

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Alone we can do so little together we can do so much.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

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

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

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.