'I lock my door upon myself,' a line from the poem "Who shall deliver me?" by Christina Rossetti, which depicts the fundamental creativity from Hammershøi’s inner world so unmistakably. Many promising artists who determined to withdraw from the public and to work from within welcomed this self-absorption philosophy, which prevailed in 19th century. With a brilliant mind, Vilhelm Hammershøi has always kept him to be truthful to this philosophy and to be faithful to what he believes.