What did Henry Miller mean by: The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. Henry Miller Writer · USA Copy
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Criticism, Education, Humanity, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Acceptance, Self-awareness, Transformation, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
I soon found out you can’t change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Acceptance, Realism, Resilience, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Being, Fulfillment, Peace, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Existentialism, Separation, Unity, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Attachment, Identity, Suicide, 0 Henry Miller Writer · USA
Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry Miller, Action, Ecstasy, Joy, 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
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good. William Lethaby Architect · United Kingdom
