Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.


Essays and Lectures (ed. Library of America, 1983) - ISBN: 9780940450158

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and...

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and...

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and...

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and...