Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. -
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. -
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. -
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. -
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- All diseases run into one, old age.
- The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Every artist was first an amateur.