Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.


Representative Men: Seven Lectures (ed. 1850)


The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the...

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the...

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the...

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the...