The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
Aldous HuxleyThe secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous HuxleyAs late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.
Aldous HuxleyYou got rid of them. Yes, thatโs just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether โtis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end themโฆ But you donโt do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. Itโs too easy.
Aldous HuxleyThe condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
Aldous HuxleyAbused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
Aldous Huxley