What did Henry James mean by: A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it. Henry James Author · USA Copy
Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Americanism, Identity, Self-reflection, 0 Henry James Author · USA
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Effort, Life, Persistence, 0 Henry James Author · USA
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Empathy, Knowledge, Understanding, 0 Henry James Author · USA
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Credibility, Influence, Support, 0 Henry James Author · USA
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one’s self to an idea. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Creativity, Devotion, Selflessness, 0 Henry James Author · USA
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Challenge, Creativity, Perception, 0 Henry James Author · USA
Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Acceptance, Growth, Reflection, 0 Henry James Author · USA
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Artistic, Beauty, Force, 0 Henry James Author · USA
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience – a non-art-world audience. Jenny Holzer Artist
Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive. Read explanation Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
