Henry James

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

Henry James

An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.

Henry James

Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong.

Henry James

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

Henry James

Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.

Henry James

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one’s self to an idea.

Henry James

Art without life is a poor affair.

Henry James

Be one on whom nothing is lost.

Henry James

But if we may perish by cracks in things that we don’t know.

Henry James

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 James