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 JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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