I am alone with myself
Not long after, Johnson's friend, the painter Joshua Reynolds, noted in his Discourses on Art that: 'The highest ambition of every Artist is to be thought a man of Genius.' But in 1826, the critic William Hazlitt suggested in his essay 'Whether genius is conscious of its powers?': 'No really great man ever thought himself so.... He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.' Picasso, for instance, said publicly: 'When I am alone with myself, I cannot regard myself as an artist. In the strict sense of the word. The great painters were Giotto, Rembrandt, and Goya.'
*Johnson=Samuel Johnson
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When I am alone with myselfについてですが、
I am aloneでも意味が通じる気がするのですが
with myselfをつけることによってどういう意味合いになるのでしょうか?
よろしくお願いいたします。
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