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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Art,” Society and Solitude (1870).

Categories: Art And Artists, Creativity, Essayist, Philosopher

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