Thomas Cole Quotes

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• Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
• Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of…
• How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!
• If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry
• To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
• It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but…
• How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
• If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that…
• The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we…
• The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over…
• Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
• None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
• . . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass…
• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought…
• Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.
• I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the…

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