Sublime Quotes

“For the sublime is nothing else but a great thought, expressed with clearness, force, and passion.”

“I'm interested in the fact that the sublime is in the trivial.”

“The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately.”

“The sublime is a feeling of being overwhelmed by the bigness of things.”

“The fearful is the mother of the sublime.”

“By the artist's intervention, the sublime is brought down to earth and given a concrete form.”

“We are reasserting man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relationship to the absolute emotions.”