Art Quote by Henry Miller

“A despairing arse will never produce a happy fart.”

— Frater U.D

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from…

— Alexander Trocchi

“Psy will go down in history as the first real twenty-first-century entertainer: who else could combine Confucianism and farting?”

— Euny Hong

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.”

— Raoul Vaneigem

“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured…

— Lawrence Durrell

“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Art can’t decide whether the War on Drugs is an obscene absurdity or an absurd obscenity. In either case, it’s a tragic, bloody farce.”

— Don Winslow

“Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that…

— Sorin Suciu