Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Art is a sense of magic.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Art is significant deformity.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

Aesthetes have it all over intellectuals in one very important respect: You'll rarely catch us hustling anyone off to the nearest guillotine. We're too busy trying to make the world more beautiful. Our hands are stained with ink and paint, not blood.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

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

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Art and life are inseparable.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.

Life and art are inseparable.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

I want to show beautiful things and share them with everyone.

I look at the feminine body as a piece of art.

Art is the right hand of Nature.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.