Eli Siegel Quotes

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• When truth is divided, errors multiply.
• If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
• Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both…
• There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.
• The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,
• All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
• The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.
• In reality opposites are one; art shows this.
• The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.
• Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.
• Every work of art is about everything.
• Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.
• Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.
• We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
• You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self…
• There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can…
• The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become…
• True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a…
• One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that…
• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and…

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