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

Jay DeFeo

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Jay DeFeo
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March 31, 1929 - November 11, 1989

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Lion Feuchtwanger

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

Thomas Paine

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Theodor Adorno

What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

Zadie Smith

At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

Derek Mahon

Tottenham ice their sublime cake with the ridiculous.

Peter Drury

A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to all that limits and constrains it, but only by strength of will. Consequently the sublime soul is only free by broken efforts.

Friedrich Schiller

In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime

Ben Sidran

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

Mary Roach

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Unknown

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

Thomas Paine

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

Anthony Bourdain

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

Harry Graham

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a battle as sublime. Because even though people were dying, it was such a huge sensory experience that it became sublime.

George Saunders

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