I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be t….

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of na….

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its rela….

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself..

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds..

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses ..

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon gener….

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime..

What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason..

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous..

Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not….

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment..

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - te….

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy..

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that ….

I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hung….

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space..

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and….

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration..