Quotes About Elevation

Launched from tiny ankles, their legs shot up like guided missiles into atmospheres of private height.

The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

The hyperreal is the abolition of the real not by violent destruction, but by its assumption, elevation to the strength of the model. Anticipation, deterrence, preventive transfiguration, etc.: the model acts as a sphere of absorption of the real.

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

L'indépendance que je croyais avoir acquise était le seul sentiment qui m'affectait. Libre et maître de moi-même, je croyais pouvoir tout faire, atteindre à tout : je n'avais qu'à m'élancer pour m'élever et voler dans les airs.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

The stratosphere is my church.

Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can't criticise him. People from the time remember him as an imperialist, a hard-right politician, very instrumental in the oppression of Ireland and the attempt to defeat the general strike.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

Every album I just try to step it up. I don't try to overdo myself, overpower myself.

We thought we had elevated animal behavior to an art form. But then we met Ozzy.

you truly want to make some serious changes in your life then you must start by raising your standards.

There ought to be a big fuss when people move up in the world.

climbed higher up the tree and along

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.