“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Our friend was slightly nervous; that went with his character as a student of fine prose, went with the artist’s general disposition… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He was "distinguished" to the tips of his polished nails, and there was not a movement of his fine perpendicular person that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“A second chance—that’s the delusion. There never was to be but one. We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
