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 think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.
Art functioning as propaganda is not art.
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.
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