Solitude

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you 45 have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.