Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

A cheerful life is what the Muses love. A soaring spirit is their prime delight.

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.

In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children.

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

It's really fun to create something that touches the world.

This is my experience of Oprah Winfrey - she makes decisions as frequently as she can to contribute with consciousness, with awareness, with love. I know - this is the source of her joy, her vitality, her unending creativity and her connection to people.

Music brings life to my soul.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem ... the creativity blows my mind because you can see that people want to live their lives to the fullest.

Once you have linked yourself with love, a flood of inspiration is revealed to you, whatever the subject, whatever the problem in life may be. Whatever it be that your eye casts its glance upon, it will disclose itself. Then you are on the real road, and what a joy this is!

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing