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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Philosophy, Work
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music, Art, Sun
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2416, Delphi Classics

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Egypt, Doors

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Transcendentalism, Instinct
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

Art is a jealous mistress.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Jealous, Mistress
'The Conduct of Life' (1860) 'Wealth'

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Art, Doe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2388, Delphi Classics

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Sculpture, Celebration
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Adventure, Years
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.5, Harvard University Press

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Art, Hands

We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Book, Men

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.393

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Fate, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.178, Jazzybee Verlag

It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Littles, Mood
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.46, Harvard University Press

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Philosophy, History

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Men, Sight

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Children, Book
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Appreciation, Art, Sculpture

Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Art, Real
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dance, Art, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Harvard University Press

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Country, Art
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Utterance, Speech
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Night, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Self, Triumph
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.25, Harvard University Press

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Taken, Gains
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.36, Courier Corporation

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Creative, Moments

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