“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.” GivingFeelsFeelingsCareEmotionQualitySeeingObjectsGrandeur Author:Eli Siegel
“Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?” IfsWorldPersonsLongHas BeensGivenEmotionLong TimeLogicOppositesBasesStrongerStructureMusicalCalmIntenseOnenessSensible Author:Eli Siegel
“The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.” WorldHas BeensPurposeEmotionPhotographySelected Author:Eli Siegel
