Favor Quote by Jeffrey Fry

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

— Don DeLillo

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power…

— May Sarton

I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture,…

— Michael Light

“Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never left such…

— Charles Adolphe Wurtz

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

— Joseph Cornell

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

— Thomas Paine

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

— Jay DeFeo

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

— Theodor Adorno

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible,…

— Edmund Burke

You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

— Henry Miller

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

— Anonymous

“Sublime places gently move us to acknowledge limitations that we might otherwise encounter with anxiety or anger in the ordinary flow of events. It…

— Alain de Botton

“Some of the things you say are sublime and monstrous at once.”

— Henry Miller

It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers…

— John Pfahl

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel