More quotes by 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."
"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."
"Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal."
"She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS."
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."