Artist Quotes by Eli Siegel

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

— Eli Siegel

“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth.…

— Eli Siegel

There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we…

— Eli Siegel

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

— Eli Siegel

To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity...

— Eli Siegel

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,

— Eli Siegel

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it…

— Eli Siegel

“The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.”

— Eli Siegel

One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife…

— Eli Siegel

Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? -…

— Eli Siegel

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

— Eli Siegel

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

— Eli Siegel

In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut…

— Eli Siegel

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you…

— Eli Siegel

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

— Eli Siegel