"If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is……" — Thomas Cole
"If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry"
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16 Quotes by Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole has 16 quotes on this site.
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Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to…
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Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence.…
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How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old…
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To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.
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It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the…
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How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
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If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian…
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The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial…
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The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In…
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Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
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None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a…
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. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity…
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