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Quotes from Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness — Eli Siegel

1902–1978 Latvia

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Aesthetics is related to every particular conflict; to everyday conflict.

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

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

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

Aesthetics is the one fundamental means a person has of liking himself.

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

All art puts separateness and togetherness together. All selves want to do this.

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

Shadows...bring softness to every thing. An object and its shadow are softness and hardness.

Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eli Siegel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.