“Beauty starvation is almost as widespread as love starvation.”

— Laura Archera Huxley, You Are Not The Target, 1963, Part Two, 16: As If for the First Time

About Laura Archera Huxley

Italian-American violinist, psychotherapist and author of "You Are Not the Target" (1963).

“Creativity is not the monopoly of the Shakespeares and Einsteins of this world.”

“Like any other faculty, imagination can be starved and suffocated or stimulated and nourished.”

“Each one of us has, in varying degree, the power to make others feel better or worse.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”