Eli Siegel Quotes

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

Reality is all that which can affect one.

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.

Every work of art is about everything.