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.
ATTRIBUTION:
Henry James (1843–1916), U.S. author. Letter, July 10, 1915, to author H.G. Wells. Henry James Letters, vol. 4, ed. Leon Edel (1984).
Wells replied (13th July), “I don’t clearly understand your concluding phrases.... I can only read sense into it by assuming that you are using ‘art’ for every conscious human activity. I use the word for a research and attainment that is technical and special.”
