I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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To take what there is in life 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.
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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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