Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Interpretation
True beauty transcends physical attributes and is found in the ability to evoke imagination.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that while things may possess qualities like grace and elegance, they do not achieve true beauty until they resonate with the human imagination. In essence, beauty is not just about appearance; it arises from the deeper emotional and intellectual connections that objects or experiences can inspire within us.
In practice
In a conversation about art and aesthetics, one might say this quote to express the deeper nature of beauty.
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?
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Labels need to work with artists to help them achieve their best work, not to jam records out that are half-baked or three-quarters baked.
I'm playing deep African music.
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