Henry Miller Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

  Henry Miller

  Love, Real, Enemy

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.274, New Directions Publishing

• Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Men, Enemy

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

• Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Race, Enemy

  Tropic of Cancer (1934) p. 280

• I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow.

  Henry Miller

  Artist, America, Individuality

• The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

  Henry Miller

  Enemy, Quality, Realizing

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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