Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Interpretation
Taste is the appreciation of beauty, while creating beauty is the essence of art.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights the dual nature of aesthetics: taste, which refers to the subjective appreciation of beauty, and art, which is the active process of creation that brings beauty into the world. It suggests that both the appreciation of beauty and the ability to create it are fundamental aspects of human experience and expression.
In practice
This quote would be perfect for an art exhibition's promotional material.
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?
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.
Burlesque girls were alchemists. They were steel-tough performers who were willing to use kitchens as dressing rooms, haul their costume bags through the snow, and go into debt over fake diamonds, all for the five minutes onstage when they were goddesses.
I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.
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