Brad Pitt Quotes

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Solitude is the place of purification.

You only grow when you are alone.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.

I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly.

I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I'll read a book. I'll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I'll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.