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

- Eli Siegel

In order to be deep, we sometimes have to cut through and cut apart. That is to be seen in the common phrase, 'Cut it out!' The reason is that this t…

- Eli Siegel

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

- Eli Siegel

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

- Eli Siegel

You don't want to see things as they are because your ego would have to admit that things outside yourself are necessary for the self to be. You stil…

- Eli Siegel

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

- Eli Siegel

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, re…

- Eli Siegel

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

- Eli Siegel

There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel that we can care …

- Eli Siegel