Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the joyous nature of visual art forms as expressions of human creativity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that picture and sculpture serve as vibrant celebrations of physical forms, enhancing our appreciation of art through their visual and tactile qualities. He implies that these artistic expressions invite us to experience beauty and creativity, transforming the ordinary into something extraordinary during our engagement with art.
In practice
In a speech at an art gallery opening, one might inspire appreciation by quoting Emerson.
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?
If you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio is a Musical Instrument’ it would make such a different approach to recording.
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.
the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
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