Skip to content

Fine Quote by Eli Siegel

“To see the outside world as the same stuff as…” quote by Eli Siegel — Download Open image

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

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Fine Outside world Secret Stuff World

More by Eli Siegel

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

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.…

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…

Image

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

Image

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

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…

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.”

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…

Image

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

Image

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Explore all 29 Eli Siegel quotes

More Fine quotes

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.

Image

Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people…

Michael Cudlitz

Image

The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September.

Pietro Badoglio

Image

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way.…

Image

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Image

- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki…

Image

Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on…

Image

It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a…

Image

Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

Lawrence Lessig

Image

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken…

Image

School plays are fine. Theater in school is fine.

Image

Browse all 5,019 Fine quotes