Quotes by Eli Siegel

Eli Siegel

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Opposites

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

Art

Fairness

Soothing

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

Art

Fairness

Way

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

Individuality

Intrusion

Personality

Every work of art is about everything.

Art

Art Is

Fairness

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

Gambling

Mistake

Stones

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.

Cutting

Order

Understanding

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

Art

Opposites

Reality

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?

Art

Oneness

Reality

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?

Artist

Color

Serenity

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Art

Art Is

Artist

Color

Cutting

Desire

Doe

Errors

Ethics

Fairness

Feelings

Fun

Gambling

Giving

Honesty

Importance

Important

Important Things

Individuality

Intrusion

Knives

Long

Mean

Mistake

Musical

Oneness

Opposites

Order

Originality

People

Personality

Photography

Purpose

Quality

Reality

Secret

Self

Serenity

Should

Soothing

Stones

Stuff

Understanding

Universe

Way

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Quotes by Eli Siegel

Eli Siegel

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

Every work of art is about everything.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

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.

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

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?

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