Male

Born on May 8

Madison, United States

May 21, 2011

English, Food, Love

Loving, Travel, People, Culture, Art, Wine, Food, Loving, & Laughing, oh, and Loving

Any Art Fair, Museum, Passionate People, Music,

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful and the fine arts, if we employ the popular distinction of works according to their aim either at use or beauty. Thus in our fine arts, not imitation but creation is the aim. In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know. The details, the prose of nature he should omit and give us only the spirit and splendor. He should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which is to him good; and this because the same power which sees through his eyes is seen in that spectacle; and he will come to value the expression of nature and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy the features that please him. He will give the gloom of gloom and the sunshine of sunshine. In a portrait he must inscribe the character and not the features, and must esteem the man who sits to him as himself only an imperfect picture or likeness of the aspiring original within. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hasselblad, Sinar, Betterlight, Toyo, Canon, Nikon