All RALPH WALDO EMERSON Quotes about “Art”

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.”
“Thou art to me a delicious torment.”
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
“Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”
“On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.”
“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”
“The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.”
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
“Art is a jealous mistress.”
“Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.”
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them”
“No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.”
“Knowledge is the only elegance.”
“The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.”
“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.”
“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
“Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”
“All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.”
“Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.”

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