Books Quote by Thomas Paine

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

— Theodor Adorno

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes…

— Thomas Paine

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

— Charles Saatchi

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to…

— Jane Porter

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

— George Canning

One source of the sublime is infinity.

— Edmund Burke

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

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

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