“ As all men have some access to primary truth, so all have some art or power of communication in their head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Intellect (1841). copy citation
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|---|---|
| Source | Intellect |
| Topic | communication truth |
| Date | 1841 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | in "Essays: First Series" |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Essays:_First_Series/Intellect |
Context
“The rich, inventive genius of the painter must be smothered and lost for want of the power of drawing, and in our happy hours we should be inexhaustible poets, if once we could break through the silence into adequate rhyme. As all men have some access to primary truth, so all have some art or power of communication in their head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand. There is an inequality, whose laws we do not yet know, between two men and between two moments of the same man, in respect to this faculty. In common hours, we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired, but they do not sit for their portraits;”
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