"Every artist was first an amateur." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Topic(s): Art Tags: artist, every, first More From Ralph Waldo Emerson "Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." "Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none." "As we grow old, the beauty steals inward." More In Art "There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."― Andre Gide "Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art."― Virginia Woolf "My trade and art is to live."― Michel de Montaigne