What did Henry Miller mean by: If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. Henry Miller Writer · USA Copy
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Ambition, Challenge, Consequences, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
Even if it doesn’t work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Action, Empowerment, Health, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Expansion, Ignorance, Knowledge, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Passion, Performance, Significance, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Alienation, Individualism, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Confusion, Order, Understanding, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Adjustment, Contentment, Peace, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Honesty, Transparency, Truth, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. Jean Cocteau Artist · France