To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

- Thomas Cole

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

- Thomas Cole

. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pas…

- Thomas Cole

And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such won…

- Thomas Cole

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in …

- Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

- Thomas Cole

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we f…

- Thomas Cole

It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that…

- Thomas Cole

If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has…

- Thomas Cole