When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation... — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“This is not drawing,' he cried, 'this is inspiration!' 'I had meant it to be drawing,' was Constable's characteristic answer.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything?… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“It is a knowledge of the intrinsic significance of every existent. For the artist as for the mescalin taker draperies are living… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, or else for those resolute dead-enders, who have made up their minds to be content… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of which human beings, nature, and even his beloved… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
“Quote of the day:Quote of the day: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
