Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be brave enough to do the loving thing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson