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?
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
At some point you have to believe that the inadequacies of the words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that poetry has some reach into reality itself, or you have to go silent.
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