Failing Quote by Edmund Burke

The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot be owing…

— Edmund Burke

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

— John Ruskin

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

— Robert Bresson

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning,…

— Julia Kristeva

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

— Walter Savage Landor

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them:…

— Immanuel Kant

'Flower' is about the sublime.

— Jenova Chen

“Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the reflection dwells on them: the starry…

— Immanuel Kant

Brilliance is neither a fashion or a style, a trend or an ambience! It's an awakening of our luminous ingenuity.

— Jasmina Siderovski

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence the more often and more steadily one reflects on them, the…

— Immanuel Kant

It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea…

— Charles Darwin