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Top 20 Eli Siegel Quotes (2025 Update)

Eli Siegel Quote: “The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.”

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

Eli Siegel Quote: “We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.”

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

Eli Siegel Quote: “When truth is divided, errors multiply.”

3. “When truth is divided, errors multiply.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.”

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

Eli Siegel Quote: “All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

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

Eli Siegel Quote: “In reality opposites are one; art shows this.”

7. “In reality opposites are one; art shows this.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.”

8. “If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? – must every work of art have a simultaneous presence of oneness and manyness, unity and variety?”

9. “Is there in every work of art something which shows reality as one and also something which shows reality as many and diverse? – must every work of art have a simultaneous presence of oneness and manyness, unity and variety?”

Eli Siegel Quote: “True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.”

10. “True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “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 still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.”

11. “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 still have fun, as most people do, from manipulating things.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.”

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

Eli Siegel Quote: “There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.”

13. “There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity...”

14. “To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity...”

Eli Siegel Quote: “Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.”

15. “Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.”

16. “Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “Every work of art is about everything.”

17. “Every work of art is about everything.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.”

18. “Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “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 thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.”

19. “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 thing is seen as superfluous and therefore it should be excised, as a growth, unnecessary, should be excised.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.”

20. “The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.”

Eli Siegel Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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

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

Eli Siegel Quote: “Reality is all that which can affect one.”

23. “Reality is all that which can affect one.”

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