Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Art

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Giving Up Glitter Glory Goals God Gold Good Deeds Good Morning Goodness Gossip Grace Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greece Greek Grief Grieving Growing Up Growth Guns Habits Happiness Hard Times Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Helping Others Heroism Hills History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope Horses Hospitality House Housework Hugs Human Body Human Nature Humanity Humility Hunting Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Idealism Identity Idleness Ignorance Imagination Imitation Immortality Impulse Independence Individualism Individuality Injustice Inner Beauty Innocence Innovation Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Jesus Jesus Christ Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Laughter Law Of Attraction Lawyers Laziness Leadership Learning Leaving Libertarianism Liberty Libraries Life Life And Love Lifetime Listening Literacy Literature Live Life Logic Loneliness Losing Loss Love Love And Friendship Love Life Loyalty Luck Luther Lying Madness Magic Making Money Management Manhood Mankind Manners Marriage Martyrdom Mask Materialism Mathematics Mediocrity Meetings Memories Mental Health Metaphysics Military Mindfulness Mining Miracles Mistakes Mom Money Monument Moon Morality Morning Motherhood Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Mourning Muse Music Mythology Nationalism Nature Neighbors New Beginnings Newton Nurses Obedience Observation Office Old Age Opinions Opium Opportunity Optimism Originality Overcoming Pain Painting Parents Parties Passion Past Patience Patriots Peace Perception Perfection Performing Persecution Perseverance Personality Perspective Persuasion Pessimism Pets Philanthropy Philosophy Photography Physics Piety Planning Plato Pleasure Poetry Police Politicians Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preaching Prejudice Preparation Pride Prisons Privacy Progress Property Prophet Prosperity Prudence Public 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  • Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295
  • A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.529, Library of America
  • It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.158
  • All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation
  • Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2416, Delphi Classics
  • The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.155
  • The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.153, Harvard University Press
  • A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.5, Harvard University Press
  • I honor health as the first Muse.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.227
  • He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.367
  • Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

  • The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1912). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”
  • The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

  • The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.163
  • The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action he engages in reacts upon and illuminates the recesses of his own mind. Thus friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, - that we find we have (a common Nature) - one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.

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

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.20, Penguin
  • Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.152
  • Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”
  • The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.23, Harvard University Press
  • New arts destroy the old.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books
  • Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics
  • 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 which the work evinced in the artist.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1409, Delphi Classics
  • What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press
  • Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

  • Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

  • The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2452, Delphi Classics
  • Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59
  • Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.223
  • The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

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

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.195, The Floating Press
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Conspiracy Constitution Contemplation Contentment Cooking Country Courage Courtship Creation Creative Writing Creativity Crime Criticism Critics Culture Curiosity Cynicism Dancing Darkness Daughters Death Deception Decisions Defeat Democracy Design Desire Destiny Determination Determinism Devil Devotion Diamonds Difficulty Dignity Discipline Diversity Divorce Dogma Dogs Doom Doubt Dreams Drinking Driving Duty Dying Earth Eating Economists Economy Education Effort Elections Electricity Elegance Emancipation Emotions Encouragement Encouraging Enemies Energy Enthusiasm Environment Envy Epic Equality Eternity Ethics Evidence Evil Evolution Exams Excellence Excuses Exercise Expectations Experience Eyes Failing Failure Faith Fame Family Fashion Fate Fathers Fear Feelings Fighting Finding Yourself Fitness Flight Flowers Focus Food Forgiveness Freedom Friends Friendship Frugality Funeral Funny Future Gardening Gardens Gems Generosity Genius Geography Getting Old Getting Older Ghosts Giving Giving Up Glitter Glory Goals God Gold Good Deeds Good Morning Goodness Gossip Grace Graduation Gratitude Greatness Greece Greek Grief Grieving Growing Up Growth Guns Habits Happiness Hard Times Harmony Hate Hatred Healing Health Heart Heaven Hell Helping Others Heroism Hills History Holiday Home Honesty Honor Hope Horses Hospitality House Housework Hugs Human Body Human Nature Humanity Humility Hunting Hurt Husband Hypocrisy Idealism Identity Idleness Ignorance Imagination Imitation Immortality Impulse Independence Individualism Individuality Injustice Inner Beauty Innocence Innovation Insanity Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Intuition Jesus Jesus Christ Jewelry Journey Joy Judgement Judging Judgment Justice Karma Kindness Knowledge Labor Language Latin Laughter Law Of Attraction Lawyers Laziness Leadership Learning Leaving Libertarianism Liberty Libraries Life Life And Love Lifetime Listening Literacy Literature Live Life Logic Loneliness Losing Loss Love Love And Friendship Love Life Loyalty Luck Luther Lying Madness Magic Making Money Management Manhood Mankind Manners Marriage Martyrdom Mask Materialism Mathematics Mediocrity Meetings Memories Mental Health Metaphysics Military Mindfulness Mining Miracles Mistakes Mom Money Monument Moon Morality Morning Motherhood Mothers Motivation Motivational Mountain Mourning Muse Music Mythology Nationalism Nature Neighbors New Beginnings Newton Nurses Obedience Observation Office Old Age Opinions Opium Opportunity Optimism Originality Overcoming Pain Painting Parents Parties Passion Past Patience Patriots Peace Perception Perfection Performing Persecution Perseverance Personality Perspective Persuasion Pessimism Pets Philanthropy Philosophy Photography Physics Piety Planning Plato Pleasure Poetry Police Politicians Politics Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Poverty Power Praise Prayer Preaching Prejudice Preparation Pride Prisons Privacy Progress Property Prophet Prosperity Prudence Public Speaking Purity Purpose Purpose Of Life Quakers Quality Quitting Rage Rain Rainbows Reading Reading Books Reality Recovery Redemption Reflection Regret Reincarnation Rejection Relationships Religion Repetition Reputation Respect Responsibility Retiring Revelations Revolution Rhetoric Ridicule Rings Risk Romance Romantic Love Running Sacrifice Sadness Safety Sailing Saints Salvation Sanity Satire School Science Security Self Confidence Self Control Self Esteem Self Love Self Reliance Self Respect Self Worth Selfishness Serenity Seven Shame Sickness Silence Simplicity Sin Sincerity Skepticism Skins Slavery Slaves Sleep Sloth Smoking Social Anxiety Social Justice Society Soldiers Solitude Songs Sorrow Soul Sparkle Speed Spirituality Sports Spring Stay Strong Strength Struggle Students Study Stupidity Style Success Suffering Summer Sunday Sunrise Sunshine Surrender Sympathy Take Care Talent Taxes Tea Teachers Teaching Teamwork Technology Temperance Temptation Terror Thankful Thankfulness Thanksgiving Theology This Day Time Time And Space Time Management Tobacco Today Trade Tradition Tragedy Train Training Transcendentalism Transformation Travel True Friends True Love Trust Truth Twilight Ugliness Unbelief Understanding Unity Universe Values Victory Violence Virtue Vision Vocation Volunteer Waiting Walking Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Weed Well Being Wife Wilderness Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Wit Work Worry Worship Writing Yoga Youth