Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESYoung men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESTo myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
HENRY JAMESThe success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMES