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Eli Siegel - From the Art category:
Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Art category:
Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Desire category:
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Ego category:
You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Emotion category:
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can care for ourselves without seeing our feelings as objects, and liking them as objects, is to be wrong about our care for ourselves. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Happiness category:
- Self and World...
The self by its very nature is compelled to love reality. The self has to aim after happiness and there is no happiness except by the successful love of reality. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Humility category:
- Art as, Yes, Humility...
Art, itself, is humility at one with pride. In art, the successful humility is the soul's swellingness. The relaxation of the ego is its might. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Importance category:
The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Individuality category:
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Mistakes category:
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Opposites category:
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Originality category:
Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Poetry category:
One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Questions category:
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir? (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Reality category:
Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? - must every work of art have a simultaneous presence of oneness and manyness, unity and variety? (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Reality category:
Reality is all that which can affect one. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Subject category:
Every work of art is about everything. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Truth category:
When truth is divided, errors multiply. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Understanding category:
In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Universe category:
The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once. (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Unknowns category:
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity... (Eli Siegel)
Eli Siegel - From the Work category:
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth. (Eli Siegel)
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