"Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder……" — Aldous Huxley

"Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories."

— Aldous Huxley

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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley has 533 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to…
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others,…
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting…
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up,…
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that…
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no…
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight…
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

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More Artist Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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