Art quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."
"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."
"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even."
"Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side."
"Knowledge exists to be imparted."
"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching."
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
"Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours."
"A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking."
"Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men-that is genius."
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."