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Henry James - From the Art category:
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Artists category:
Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Beauty category:
In art economy is always beauty. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Character category:
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Criticism category:
-on Winslow Homer...
He has chosen the least pictorial features of the least pictorial range of scenery and civilization; he has resolutely treated them as if they were pictorial, as if they were every inch as good as Capri or Tangiers; and, to reward his audacity, he has incontestably succeeded. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Critics category:
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Experience category:
Deep experience is never peaceful. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Experience category:
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Freedom category:
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Life category:
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Life category:
To take what there 'is,' and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Obligation category:
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Success category:
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy. What was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Words category:
Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Work category:
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. (Henry James)
Henry James - From the Writing category:
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. (Henry James)
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