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"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."
"Art is to console those who are broken by life."
"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."
"Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces."
"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."
"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."
"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."
"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
Explore more quotes by Henry James
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
"Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions."
"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
"We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it."
"I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do."
"It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry."
"I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will."
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