Beauty Quotes by Henry James

In art economy is always beauty.

— Henry James

“It has not been a successful life.' 'No -- it has only been a beautiful one.”

— Henry James

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

— Henry James

“Supreme beauty suddenly revealed is apt to strike us as a possible illusion playing with our desire—instant freedom with it to strike…

— Henry James

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm…

— Henry James

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of…

— Henry James

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics…

— Henry James

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of…

— Henry James

Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed…

— Henry James

Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly…

— Henry James

“She was a plain-faced old woman, without graces and without any great elegance, but with an extreme respect for her own motives.…

— Henry James

“The picture had no flourishes, but she liked its lowness of tone and the atmosphere of summer twilight that pervaded it. It…

— Henry James