Artists are selfish people. If you really want to give yourself 100 percent to your art, then it’s better to be alone.
“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities.”
William T. Vollmann