24 Quotes by Eli Siegel

The self can watch itself becoming lazy, or non-watchful; this is an asset that can make both for humor and profound well-being.

We want people to represent us in politics—and in love and economics too. When people represent us fully, they are ourselves and are not ourselves. When an object is simultaneously the same as and different from the person concerned with it—or considering it—aesthetics is there.

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

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

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

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

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.

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

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.