Henry James Quote

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.


The Spoils of Poynton. - Prefaces (1907-1909)


Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it...

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it...

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it...

Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it...