Eli Siegel: Quotes about art

Eli Siegel was Latvian-American poet, philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on art.
Eli Siegel: 38   quotes 2   likes

“Poetry, like Art, is the oneness of the permanent opposites in reality as seen by an individual.”

Eli Siegel

Definition 18 (c) Definition Press, (New York: Definition Press, 1964)

Art , Reality

“In reality opposites are one; art shows this.”

Eli Siegel

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

Art , Reality

“Art is internal and external. The repose a person feels in aesthetic creation comes from his, for the time, feeling he is what he is and also what he is not. Ego and otherness don't fight for the while. The artist feels he has reached form in the deepest places of his personality, because things outside himself have been see courageously, truly, respectfully by him.”

Eli Siegel

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

Art , Feeling , Courage , Time

“All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this.”

Eli Siegel

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

Art