Quote by Aldous Huxley
Perhaps its good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if h

Perhaps its good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if hes happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? – Aldous Huxley

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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. – Aldous Huxley

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. – Aldous Huxley

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Although all the good arts serve to draw mans mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. – Theodor Adorno

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. – Frank Zappa

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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells

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Silence is the mother of truth. – Benjamin Disraeli

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A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. – Homer

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