Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the joyous nature of visual art forms as expressions of human creativity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that picture and sculpture serve as vibrant celebrations of physical forms, enhancing our appreciation of art through their visual and tactile qualities. He implies that these artistic expressions invite us to experience beauty and creativity, transforming the ordinary into something extraordinary during our engagement with art.
In practice
In a speech at an art gallery opening, one might inspire appreciation by quoting Emerson.
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?
If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then, I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.
I always say that music is a small drop in the ocean of life. I was told a long time ago that your horn, or whatever instrument you play, is a means to be in the world.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
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