Henry James on Art
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Henry James, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Henry James, entry #126201: "The practice of "reviewing"… in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism."
Attributed to Henry James, entry #108218: "Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily…"
6 Quotes by Henry James on Art
"The practice of "reviewing"… in general has nothing in common with the art of criticism."
"Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so."
"In art economy is always beauty."
"However incumbent it may be on most of us to do our duty, there is, in spite of a thousand narrow dogmatisms, nothing in the world that anyone is under the least obligation to like — not even a particular kind of writing."
"Whatever question there may be of his talent, there can be none, I think, of his genius. It was a slim and crooked one; but it was eminently personal. He was imperfect, unfinished, inartistic; he was worse than provincial — he was parochial; it is only at his best that he is readable."
"If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?"