Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
Interpretation
Art teaches us patience and proper behavior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that engaging with sculpture and painting cultivates our understanding of etiquette and encourages a slower, more thoughtful approach to life. Through the appreciation of art, we learn to value precision and attention to detail, which can enhance our social interactions and personal well-being.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of arts education.
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?
Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them. What we're talking about here is metaphor. Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art, if it is not art itself. Metaphor is our vocabulary for connecting what we are experiencing now with what we have experienced before. It's not only how we express what we remember , it's how we interpret it - for ourselves and others.
You have to imagine you write a show about a sponge and you think that maybe a few people will think it is funny, some college students, but it takes off. It is truly shocking - to the point where it is bizarre.
If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.
In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.
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