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.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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