Famous Eli Siegel Quotes
“Aesthetics is related to every particular conflict; to everyday conflict.”
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
“Aesthetics is the one fundamental means a person has of liking himself.”
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
“All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this.”
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
Eli Siegel Quotes about personality
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
Preface, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems, 1957
Eli Siegel Quotes
“Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual.”
Definition 18 (c) Definition Press, (New York: Definition Press, 1964)
“Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger.”
Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism Maxims, Definition Press 1964
“In reality opposites are one; art shows this.”
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)
Extract from the title poem Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana [Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems, Defintion Press, (1957)]
“Shadows…bring softness to every thing. An object and its shadow are softness and hardness.”
Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)