Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The artist is now giving a first coat of paint to that tautly stretched canvas which the scientist has been so busy… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is not difficult to be alone if you are poor and a failure. An artist is always alone – if he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in… — 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
