An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Quote by Henry Miller
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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Henry Miller Quotes
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
- There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
- An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
- Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
- Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
- When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
- In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Best Quotes
- All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
- Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
- As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
- Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.