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.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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