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Paint Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all…
- If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe…
- We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
- Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the…
- A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
- Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,…
- Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt…
- Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which…
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