Quotes by Sublime During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate. Frederick Lenz sublimeagepeople Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. James Russell Lowell sublimelinesambition As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power. James Vila Blake sublimelightgiving In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential. James Russell Lowell sublimeloyaltyideas Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime. Jay DeFeo ridiculoussublime Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. Jean Baudrillard seductionsublimesex Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part. Jean de la Bruyere eloquencesublimewhole The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes. Jean de la Bruyere sublimeexpressionmind The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad. Jeff Tweedy sublimelessonswriting Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. Jimmy Buffett librarysublimeonce-upon-a-time Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are just great in that, and Don's direction is sublime. Love it, and I was glad to be a part of it, if just in spirit and Don's desire for it to be a good film and for me to be happy with it. When I first saw it I was very impressed, and it gets better with repeat viewings. Joe R. Lansdale get-bettersublimedesire Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous. The weather is sublime, it's glorious, it's the end of the world. Joel Achenbach sublimeflowerweather In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime. John Bowring wreckssublimelight He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. Johann Kaspar Lavater forgivingsublimeenemy 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. John Divola notionsublimephotograph I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic. John Divola metaphorsublimelooks Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. John H Aughey climbingsublimebeautiful One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. John Dryden sublimenobleage No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No wonder it draws nature-lovers from all over the world. John Muir sublimegardenbeautiful It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers have spent most of this century trying to expunge such extravagances from their art. The tradition lives on, mostly in calendars and picture postcards. I was challenged to rework and revitalize that which had been so roundly denigrated. John Pfahl sublimetryingart«345678910111213»
