“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 Copy Share Image
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity... — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
