In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMES
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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