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
- 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.
- 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.
- Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
- 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 the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
- Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
- In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
- 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.
- We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Best Quotes
- No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
- The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
- I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
- By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
- We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
- I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
- Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
- It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.