• The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

  Henry Miller
  American writer 1891-1980
  - +

   0

Check all quotes by Henry Miller

Subjects in these quotes:

1. understanding
2. individual
3. experience
4. idealist
5. universe

Similar authors

• Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 384
• Henry David Thoreau
  American writer 282
• Ambrose Bierce
  American writer 232
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 139
• Eric Hoffer
  American writer 130
• Elbert Hubbard
  American writer and publisher 121
• James Baldwin
  American writer 120
• Audre Lorde
  American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil 100

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. by : Henry Miller

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations