Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world >>

The greatest genius is the most indebted person. >>

Our expenses are all for conformity. >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by vir >>

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child >>

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. >>

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo