Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Make good art.

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

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

Artists need to express.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the furniture around to create space on the floor, throw down some sheets and indulge in any form of art that I could get my hands on.