“ Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin farther back in man. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Art (1841). copy citation
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|---|---|
| Source | Art |
| Topic | art talent |
| Date | 1841 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | in "Essays: First Series" |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Art |
Context
“an effeminate, prudent, sickly beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed; for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
The art that thus separates is itself first separated. Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin farther back in man. Now men do not see nature to be beautiful, and they go to make a statue which shall be. They abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible, and console themselves with color-bags, and blocks of marble.”
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