Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Essays entitled critical are epistles addressed to the public through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a cold, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.