Henry Miller Way Quotations

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.

The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’ if you follow me. It is more of a search for something, in which, being blindfolded, you develop the tactile, the olfactory, the auditory senses —and thus see for the first time.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to find the whole universe embodied and enshrined in the living image of another! Adolescent, we say. Rot! This is the germ of the future life, the seed which we hide away, which we bury deep within us, which we smother and stifle and do our utmost to destroy as we advance from one experience to another and flutter and flounder and lose our way.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.