“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers -… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“With every line I write I kill off the "artist" in me. With every line it is either murder in the first… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Myself I cannot see the persistence of the artist type. I see no need for the individual man of genius in such… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I had to learn to think, feel and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
