Meditation Quote by Thomas Cole

The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes…

— Thomas Cole

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something…

— Thomas Cole

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection…

— Thomas Cole

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

— Thomas Cole

. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should…

— Thomas Cole

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

— Thomas Cole

And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have…

— Thomas Cole

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

— Thomas Cole

I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over…

— Thomas Cole

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

— Thomas Cole

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

— Thomas Cole

It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep;…

— Thomas Cole