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
- Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- 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.
- 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.
- Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
- Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
- Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
- 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.
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
- Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
Best Quotes
- Hope is a very unruly emotion.
- The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
- Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
- Every beautiful eye has a hidden cry.
- Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
- Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
- It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
- I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
- My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.