Henry Miller Quotes & Quotations

Henry Miller Quotes

» Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

» 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.

» One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

» The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

» What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

» Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

» A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there -- that of the pulse, the heart beat.

» All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

» This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.

» Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

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