A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely, but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Some will always be above others. Destroy the equality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed.
Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument.
Greek genius… Then we have it once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance itself, limited to the straight line and the square, – a builded geometry.
I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert or Frenchman in the Academy. I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion.
He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
