Artists require solitude to get anything done, but that is not all they need.
It requires solitude and the constant doubt that your subject (which is artificial plants) is worth anyone else's time.
To understand Jung's text — to meet and listen to the creatures of his unconscious — requires solitude, silence, concentrated effort.
"To live with ghosts requires solitude," he allows in voice-over; and it's a measure of Mr. Dillane's talent (recently seen in the role of Thomas Jefferson in the HBO series "John Adams") that his character never becomes a self-pitying bore.
The former requires solitude, time, depth of focus, precision of reference and seriousness of argument and expression.
Soul searching, like the practice of any devotion, requires solitude, quiet, and quality time.
Both coders and artists do their best work when they are in Flow and that often requires solitude and quiet to be achieved.
The nature of scientific work requires solitude and isolation.
Journal writing is a time of reflection and requires solitude, peace, and no interruptions.
But of the idea that writers require absolute solitude, Powell wryly notes, "That certainly worked for John Bunyan when he was in prison".
Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn't necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity of connection, closeness, kinship: an inability to find as much intimacy as is desired.
