Quote by Henry Miller
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. – Henry Miller

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Its silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. – Henry Miller

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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. – Henry Miller

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It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. – Kojiro Tomita

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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back. – Jerry Saltz

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. – Oscar Wilde

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