Beautiful Quote by Victor Hugo

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it…

— Immanuel Kant

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

— Joseph Campbell

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

— Edmund Burke

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

— Madame de Stael

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“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

I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a battle as…

— George Saunders

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

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

— Eric Hoffer

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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