As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.


The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. 1870)


As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the...

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the...

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the...

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the...