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 JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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