Notion Quote by John Divola

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

— Roberto Assagioli

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

— Jean-Francois Millet

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time…

— Rodney Crowell

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair…

— Anonymous

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were…

— Douglas Sirk

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

— George Santayana

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is…

— Richard Paul Evans

The fantastical images in my works are descriptive in a different way - a metaphorical way - that removes you from reality. Then, this…

— Signe Baumane

“Rather the artist’s delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of clouds and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could…

— Edgar Allan Poe