Artist Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life too near paralyses art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“great is the art”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a jealous mistress.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every artist was first an amateur.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eye is the best of artists.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

New arts destroy the old.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true poem is the poet's mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson