Ralph Waldo EmersonThinkers

Action is real action in silent moments.

Action's ancestor is, in every case, a thought.

Action speaks so loud that others cannot hear what one says.

Anger is a source of strength. A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Anger is self-destructive. For every minute one remains angry, one gives up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Anger is set off differently in each of us. We all boil at different degrees.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

Art is a jealous mistress... the artist makes for a bad husband and ill provider.

Art is able to exhilarate and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.

Art is both practical and moral in how it serves life. An attempted division of beauty from use is something the laws of nature do not permit'.

Art is dependent on the mood, not on the object.

Art is nature passed through the alembic of man, pursued for the sake of better living.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.