“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.”
Art“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”
Freedom“Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.”
Art“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”
Beauty“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.”
Business“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
Trust“A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.”
Religion“The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”
Art“Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
Truth“My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”
Happiness“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”
God“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.”
Experience“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
Nature“The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”
Fear“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.”
Art“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
Experience“I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.”
Business“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.”
Business“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”
Money“There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.”
God“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”
Freedom“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”
Experience