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Henry Miller - From the Art category:
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Artists category:
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Artists category:
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Awareness category:
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Chaos category:
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Communication category:
Example moves the world more than doctrine. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Danger category:
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Difficulty category:
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. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Discovery category:
In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Greatness category:
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao-Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Growth category:
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Happiness category:
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Individuality category:
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Inspiration category:
People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Interest category:
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Life category:
One has to pass beyond the sphere and influence of art. Art is only a means to life, to a life more abundant. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Loneliness category:
An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Masters category:
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Masters category:
The thing is to become a master, and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Order category:
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Passion category:
It's a curse. Yes, it's a flame. It owns you. It has possession over you. You are not the master of yourself. You are consumed by this thing. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Purpose category:
The purpose of life is to remember. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Questions category:
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Spontaneity category:
There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Surrealism category:
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Travel category:
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Understanding category:
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Watercolours category:
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Wonder category:
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Writing category:
And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest. (Henry Miller)
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