Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.


The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (ed. Harvard University Press, 1971) - ISBN: 9780674139800

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and...

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and...

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and...

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and...