Henry James Quotes

JAMES, Henry Quotes

(1843-1916), Anglo-American novelist

Art

Art does not lie in copying nature.— Nature furnishes the material by means of which to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.—The artist beholds in nature more than she herseif is conscious of.

Writing

For myself I live, live intensely and am fed by life, and my value, whatever it be, is in my own kind of expression of that.