“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; american philosopher, author and artist.
“Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.”
~ Aleister Crowley; british philosopher, magician, writer and artist.
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
~ Jack Kerovac; american author, philosopher and poet.
“Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.”
~ Tristan Tzara; romanian avant-garde writer, poet and artist.
“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson; american author, artist and iconoclast.
“Art is an outlet toward regions which are not ruled by time and space.”
~ Marcel Duchamp; french artist, writer and iconoclast.
“Do what you want as long as it’s paying off for you. But once it’s become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.”
~Anton LaVey; american author of modern satanism, philosopher and musician.
“Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease…”
~ Lao Tzu; ancient chinese taoist philosopher.
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
~Arthur Schopenhauer; german author and philosopher.
“A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
~Adlai Stevenson II; american politician and diplomat.