Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Interpretation
Taste is the appreciation of beauty, while creating beauty is the essence of art.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the dual nature of aesthetics: taste, which refers to the subjective appreciation of beauty, and art, which is the active process of creation that brings beauty into the world. It suggests that both the appreciation of beauty and the ability to create it are fundamental aspects of human experience and expression.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for an art exhibition's promotional material.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
Why would somebody just read a novel when they can see it on TV or in the cinema? I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel. With a novel, you can get right inside somebody's head.
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.
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