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Henry Miller - From the Art category:
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Artists category:
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Awareness category:
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware - joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Chaos category:
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Communication category:
Example moves the world more than doctrine. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Danger category:
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Difficulty category:
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Discovery category:
In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Drunkenness category:
-notice to visitors...
Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Eccentricity category:
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Emotion category:
Keep your exclamation points under control! (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Fame category:
-notice to visitors...
When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Greatness category:
No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao-Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Growth category:
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Happiness category:
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Happiness category:
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Imagination category:
Imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Importance category:
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Individuality category:
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Inspiration category:
People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Interest category:
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Journey category:
-Tropic of Capricorn...
We must get going. Tomorrow, tomorrow... (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Leadership category:
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Life category:
One has to pass beyond the sphere and influence of art. Art is only a means to life, to a life more abundant. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Loneliness category:
An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Love category:
To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Masters category:
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Masters category:
The thing is to become a master, and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Miracles category:
We live at the edge of the miraculous. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Mysteries category:
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Obscurity category:
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who, like the author himself, are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this, only one good reader is necessary. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Opposites category:
The artist is the opposite of the politically-minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Order category:
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Passion category:
It's a curse. Yes, it's a flame. It owns you. It has possession over you. You are not the master of yourself. You are consumed by this thing. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Peace category:
-notice to visitors...
The undersigned wishes to inform all and sundry that he has long since left the Abode of Peace, that he no longer has any comfort or inspiration to offer, and that even the migratory birds avoid this spot. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Pleasure category:
It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Prayer category:
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Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Purpose category:
The purpose of life is to remember. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Questions category:
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Questions category:
-notice to visitors...
Questions relating to work-in-progress will be answered in stereotype fashion in the columns of the Big Sur Guide at the usual space rates... Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Spontaneity category:
There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Surrealism category:
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Travel category:
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Travel category:
-notice to visitors...
For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Understanding category:
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Watercolours category:
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Wonder category:
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Words category:
Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose'... (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Writing category:
And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's terrible. You can never rest. (Henry Miller)
Henry Miller - From the Writing category:
Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. (Henry Miller)
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