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
- 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.
- 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.
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
- Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'
- Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
- We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
- Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
- What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
- Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
- They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
- Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
- I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.
- Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
- People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.
- Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
- My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
- Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.