“The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.” ArtObjectsExpressionProveFindingsArt IsInfiniteRealmsRepresentationSublimeFittingProve It Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.” NeedsHumansSoulFactsSpiritCertainUniverseEmotionGreaterExpressionDespairFindingsProfoundBoredomSublimeHuman SpiritBoundlessHuman Emotions Author:Giacomo Leopardi
“The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.” MindUseCausesEffectsObjectsExpressionOrdinaryPaintWorthyNoblePhasesSublime Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.” IfsHardProcessChangedExpressionOrdinaryTransformationPopsIceAbstractCreamSublimeIce CreamSculptureImageryIconsReproductionHamburgersWarholOf ContextConesStasisIce Cream Cones Author:Arne Glimcher
“Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified.... after a criseof hysterical revulsion and tiredness, I passed beyondand became entered by a rather sublime feeling.” WorldWarSoulFeelingsPeaceExpressionBabyLondonCuriousWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ISublimeAfter DeathNewbornHystericalTirednessRevulsionNewborn BabyDazed Author:Elizabeth Bowen