Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Interpretation
Art teaches us patience and proper behavior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that engaging with sculpture and painting cultivates our understanding of etiquette and encourages a slower, more thoughtful approach to life. Through the appreciation of art, we learn to value precision and attention to detail, which can enhance our social interactions and personal well-being.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of arts education.
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?
Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.
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