Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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