"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.












Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
"There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
"Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
"Imitation is suicide.
"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine
"Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounce...
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of a...
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
"A man is known by the books he reads.
"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they ...
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator com...