"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish,……" — Henry Miller

"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."

— Henry Miller

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261 Quotes by Henry Miller

Henry Miller has 261 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.…
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is…
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich,…
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it…
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably…
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if…
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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