Jay DeFeo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.
-- Jay DeFeo

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There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.
-- Jay DeFeo

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Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of, that sublime system which gives the venerable institution its peculiar identity as a science of morality, and it behooves every disciple diligently to ponder and inwardly digest.
Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.
mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do ...
What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium! For if we would compare the Infinite, it would surely require a greater Infinite to cause the causes of effects than to produce the effects themselves.
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
You cannot love everyone; it is ridiculous to think you can.
I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

Jay DeFeo famous quotes

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