Quotes About Sublime

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

El arte es tanto más sublime cuanto mayor es su inutilidad.

Yakety Yak. The Coasters. 1958 Spark Records. One minute and fifty seconds of sublime, in-your-face, balls-out nonsense. Everything rock and roll was meant to be.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

The most profound things are inexpressible.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Ah, horrible war, amazing medley of the glorious and the squalid, the pitiful and the sublime, if modern men of light and leading saw your face closer, simple folk would see it hardly ever.

Only Finland—superb, nay sublime—in the jaws of peril—Finland shows what free men can do.

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.

Hay que saber sentir, pero también hay que saber cómo dejar de sentir, porque si la experiencia es sublime puede volverse igual de peligros.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text of the Apocalypse before us, and let us ask ourselves whether it should or should not make any difference in our present state of being.

Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

Everyone's definition of what God means can vary. But music is something that really takes you to that - 'sublime' is a great word. That thing that is greater than we are. The beauty, the magic of the universe.

A la vérité, il forçait un peu sur le sublime : c'était un homme du XIXe siècle qui se prenait, comme tant d'autres, comme Victor Hugo lui-même, pour Victor Hugo.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.