Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every artist was first an amateur. >>

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridicul >>

Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, ri >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monot >>

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. >>

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part th >>

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo