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

— Margaret Fuller, At Home And Abroad (1856), Part II, p. 198

About Margaret Fuller

1810 – 1850

American journalist and women's rights advocate, author of "Woman in the Nineteenth Century".

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

“Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart!”

“All around us lies what we neither understand nor use.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it.”

“I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.”

“Life is earnest, art is gay.”