Solitude and loneliness have recently become one of my main interests in painting and generally. Some inspiring thoughts about them:
"Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small,--the wretch feeling, when he is alone, the whole burden of his misery; the great intellect delighting in its greatness; and everyone, in short, being just what he is."
from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
Douglas Coupland
Video by Shimi Cohen, quoting the words of Sherry Turkle from her TED talk "Connected, But Alone" and also based on Dr. Yair Amichai-Hamburgers hebrew article -The Invention of Loneliness.
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