Quote by Henry James
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James

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I think I dont regret a single excess of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didnt embrace. – Henry James

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Age
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James

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Coffee (or Tea)
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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As in nature, as in art, so in grace it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster. – Thomas Guthrie

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I paint with shapes. – Alexander Calder

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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. – Michel Foucault

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The first mistake of art is to assume that its serious. – Lester Bangs

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