Art Quotes

“Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

“for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

“The knowledge of picture-dealers has its value, but listen not to their criticism when your heart is touched by genius. It was not painted for them, it was painted for you; for such as had eyes capable of being touched by simplicity and lofty emotions.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

“When I came at last to Rome, and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious, and itself pierce directly to the simple and true; that it was familiar and sincere; that it was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms, --- unto which I lived.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art

“I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms. If he can draw everything, why draw anything?”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art