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Art Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

154 Art quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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An amateur painter holding a brush reminds us that every artist starts as a beginner. One thought says art is the proof of a creative moment, while another warns that pride can damage talent. A final note urges us to practice humility so art stays warm and genuine.

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Thou art to me a delicious torment.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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I honor health as the first Muse.

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“great is the art”

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Art is a jealous mistress.

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We live ruins amid ruins.

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Knowledge is the only elegance.

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Every artist was first an amateur.

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Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

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Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

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Art is the path of the creator to his work.

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Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

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Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated...

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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by…

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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a…

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until…

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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its…

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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all…

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How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of…

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For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor,…

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The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high…

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How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts…

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The…

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“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so…

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It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale…

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We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of…

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The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every…

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Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept…

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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense…

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Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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