Aloofness Quote by Frederick Soddy

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

— George Canning

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

— Jean-Francois Millet

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it…

— Immanuel Kant

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime…

— John Divola

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

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

— Victor Hugo

Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

— Eugene Delacroix

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

— John Hurt

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of…

— Eleanor Catton

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

— Joseph Campbell

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer