Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

America is another name for opportunity.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.