Top 33 Henri Michaux Quotes
#1. The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
Franz Wright
#2. It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.
Henri Michaux
#3. The Surrealist supernatural is a bit predictable but given the choice between supernatural and anything else, I would have no hesitation. Long live supernatural!
Henri Michaux
#4. The Sorbonne should be razed and Chris Marker put in its place.
Henri Michaux
#5. One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men.
Henri Michaux
#6. Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions.
Bob Balaban
#8. A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.
Henri Michaux
#9. He who knows how to shave the razor, will know how to erase the eraser.
Henri Michaux
#10. Being afraid is not a sign of weakness. Being afraid is a sign of a will to live, it is an indication that we place value in our lives and those in it. The only defeat in fear is allowing your fear to defeat you.
Shenita Etwaroo
#11. If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation.
David Cross
#12. He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels
Henri Michaux
#13. It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.
Henri Michaux
#14. And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.
Marco Polo
#16. It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.
Henri Michaux
#17. Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.
Howard Nemerov
#18. Happiness is believing that you're gonna be happy. It's hope.
Caroline Kepnes
#19. The bird's delirium does not interest the trees.
Henri Michaux
#20. There is not one self. There are not ten selves. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium. (One among a thousand others, continually possible and always at the ready.) An average of "me's," a movement in the crowd. In the name of many, I sign this book.
Henri Michaux
#21. We are just trying to do the best possible job we can. We're not perfect. All you can do is trust the positive intention behind it, and we're always going to work to, hopefully, get better and better.
Ellen Page
#23. With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?
Henri Michaux
#24. Education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one's life is measured.
Greg Mortenson
#25. The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.
James Altucher
#26. Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!
Anne Rice
#27. Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.
Henri Michaux
#29. You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.
Henri Michaux
#30. The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it.
Henri Michaux
#33. That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
Anthony Holden
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