Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The 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.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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