23 Quotes by Thomas Cole

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

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

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 find; it's something we create.