Sublime Quotes

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

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

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

“The fearful is the mother of the sublime.”

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

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

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