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Picture Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
- A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
- We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
- There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give…
- "Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of "going in for photography," you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture…
- Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of…
- 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…
- Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the…
- Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
- The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
- No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which,…
- 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…
- The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
- As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
- By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the…
- To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which…
- A third felicity of age is that ithas found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a…
More Picture Quotes
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to… — Dave Attell
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture… — Diane Ackerman
- My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon
- There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. — Ansel Adams
- I start a picture and I finish it. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. — Ambrose Bierce
- I have written most of my melodies walking and I feel it is definitely one of the most helpful ways of sewing… — Bjork
- Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one… — Aeschylus
- Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate,… — Aeschylus