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Henry Miller Quotes

Henry Miller quotes

American Author, Writer, Painter December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980

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Henry Miller quote: "An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the..."
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist...."
Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal. Henry Miller
To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer..."
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except..."
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. Henry Miller
Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient spacespace even more than time. Henry Miller
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. Henry Miller
No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the... Henry Miller
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller
I am a man of the old world, a seed that was transplanted by the wind, a seed which failed to blossom in the mushroom oasis of America. I belong on the heavy tree of the past. My allegiance, physical and spiritual, it is with the men of Europe, those who were once Franks, Gauls, Vikings, Huns, Tatars, what not. The climate for my body and soul is here where there is quickness and corruption. I am proud not to belong in this century. Henry Miller
For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe, "and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth. Henry Miller
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one. Henry Miller
Henry Miller quote: "The concert is a polite form of self induced torture."
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. Henry Miller
One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been knocked from under it. There must be another world beside this swamp in which everything is dumped pell-mell. It's hard to imagine what it can be like, this heaven that men dream about. Henry Miller
I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision. Henry Miller

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