Henry MillerThinkers

Action is that to which any genuine philosophy will leads. And from action it will lead back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Action is a kind of risk-taking. One reason that so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

Action is in the decisive act. The hero is one who acts. The ordinary man is involved in action.

America is a place where potentially every man is presidential timber while in europe every man is potentially a zero, and becomes something or somebody only by virtue of an accident or a miracle.

America is not young and vital but prematurely old, like a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

The America is naive, optimistic, gullible, a product of a land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles.

The America is cut off from the world not by the ocean but by the American way of looking at things.

Art is characterized by the fact that it teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

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

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.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Art is the only realm where one is both master and slave at the same time.