“It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.” GivingArtFeelingsSublimeCommonplaceTrue Power Author:Jean-Francois Millet
“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.” IfsShouldMindFeelingsRealityNamesStarsSkyColdFameEternalSilentDelicateContemplatingSolitarySublimeAbyssAbstractionTranslationsPosterityFirmamentTwinkling Author:William Hazlitt
“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.” MenHas BeensFeelingsHandsInspirationSchoolArtistCertainMistakeQualityWorstMastersGeniusElementsWeaknessAspectEnthusiasmRemarkableSublimeExaggerationBlundersImitatorMisinterpretationPersonal Feelings Author:Eugene Delacroix
“If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.” IfsFeelingsReligionThreeFoundHeavenReligiousTheoryDirectCharitySensibilitySublimeRatiosFaith HopeReligious HistoryFaith Hope And Charity Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.” LoveHeartArtFeelingsArtistSimpleLove IsMereSensitiveSublimePrecautionWitheringSimple Words Author:Honore de Balzac
“It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and providence - the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, the ocean, the storm, the earthquake, the volcano, the circuit of the seasons, and the revolutions of empires - without marking in them all the mighty hand of God, and feeling strong emotions of reverence toward the Author of these stupendous works.” MindFeelingsHandsStrongHeavenEmotionImpossibleCreationRevolutionMountainOceanSeasonsStormAwfulEmpiresReverenceProvidenceSublimePietyEarthquakesCircuitsHands Of GodVolcanoesDestituteStrong EmotionsAmazing Work Author:Timothy Dwight V