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
- 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.
- 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.
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
- Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
- The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
- The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
- Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
- 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.
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Best Quotes
- It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
- My health is very good.
- It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
- All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
- I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
- The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.
- Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
- If a person hurts you or behaves with you in a hostile manner, Think first what did you do to make him act that way.
- My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.