Alice Koller

“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously, appreciatively, receptively. Being alone without mercy.”

“Solitude is a condition of sanity.”

“To learn a new way of seeing, we must be willing to let go of the old.”

“The only way to find out what you want is to get what you want, and then see how you feel.”

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

“Wondering is the state of the child, and the state of the child is the state of the artist.”

“I have decided that I can no longer afford to be what I have been.”

“There is only one issue: how to be a human being.”

“Alone, we are ourselves. In the presence of others, we are apart from ourselves.”

“You can't begin to see whose cages you are in until you are out of them.”

“If you want to live a life you have never lived, you have to do things you have never done.”