"A work of art is an abstract..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.
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More on Art
“Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.”
“In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.”
“I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.”
More on Nature
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
“At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.”
“O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.”