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Artist Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
- The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
- 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…
- "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 you brother."
- The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
- The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
- Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
- Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to…
- You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of…
- An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.
- Every artist was first an amateur.
- Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
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