"The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.“

-Henry Miller

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Henry Miller quote about Art: "The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts."

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"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."

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"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."

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"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."

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"Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'"

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"No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe."

-Henry Miller

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