It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Quote by Henry James

Topics: Art Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Force Quotes, Life Quotes

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will...

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will...

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words...

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a...

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything...

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything...

In art economy is always beauty.

In art economy is always beauty.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what...

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what...

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what...

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other...

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other...

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have,...

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have,...

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the...

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the...

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death...

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death...

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.

Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.