"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art."

Art, Merit

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"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Art, Play, Success, Audience, Failure

"Only sick music makes money today."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Economics, Criticism

"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

Art, Creativity, Individual, Expression

"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Art, Creativity, Imagination, Storytelling

"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

Anais Nin, American Author

Art, Excess, Loneliness, Balance

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"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

Attitude

"If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door."

Success

"Every artist was first an amateur."

Creativity

"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."

Life

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

Attitude

"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise."

Leadership

"It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all."

Faith

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"History develops, art stands still."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

"Only sick music makes money today."

"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."

"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts."

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise."

"It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all."