"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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"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.“
-Henry James
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