Thomas Cole Quotes

• To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

  Thomas Cole

  Artist, Perfect, Poet

  Howard S. Merritt, Thomas Cole, Hudson River Museum (1981). “To walk with nature: the drawings of Thomas Cole : an exhibition”

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• Es el cielo el que hace que la tierra sea tan hermosa al amanecer y tan espléndida al atardecer. En uno respira sobre la tierra el éter cristalino, en el otro el oro líquido.

  Thomas Cole

  Sunset, Sky, Soul

  "The collected essays and prose sketches".

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• We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

  Thomas Cole

  Wall, Ignorance, Eden

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• It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

  Thomas Cole

  Nature, Rocks, Water

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• Nada se inventa y se perfecciona de golpe.

  Thomas Cole

  Perfection, Invention

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

  Thomas Cole

  Men, Hands, Wilderness

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• Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

  Thomas Cole

  Solitude, Mind, Scene

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• 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

  Thomas Cole

  Imagination, Painting, Ifs

  Thomas Cole, Louis Legrand Noble (1853). “The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius”, p.93

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• If I live to be old enough, I may sit down under some bush, the last left in the utilitarian world, and feel thankful that intellect in its march has spared one vestige of the ancient forest for me to die by.

  Thomas Cole

  Ríos, Medio ambiente, Mundo

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• . . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass away: for those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the creator-they are his undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

  Thomas Cole

  Nature, Regret, Men

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• Qué hermosos son los portales de la noche, cuando las estrellas salen a ver morir la luz del día.

  Thomas Cole

  Stars, Twilight, Night

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

  Thomas Cole

  Nature, Rocks, Water

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• Y la naturaleza rural está llena del mismo espíritu vivificante; es, de hecho, la mina inagotable de la que el poeta y el pintor han sacado tan maravillosos tesoros, una fuente inagotable de goce intelectual, donde todos pueden beber, y ser despertados a un sentimiento más profundo de las obras del genio, y a una percepción más aguda de la belleza de nuestra existencia. Porque aquellos cuyos días se consumen en los bajos afanes de la avaricia, o en las llamativas frivolidades de la moda, ignorantes de la belleza de la naturaleza, son inconscientes de la armonía de la creación...

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.

  Thomas Cole

  Beautiful, Time, Waiting

  Thomas Cole (1969). “Thomas Cole”

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• Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

  Thomas Cole

  Art, Nature, Perfection

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• ¡Cómo he caminado... día tras día, y completamente solo, para ver si entre las cosas viejas no había algo que fuera nuevo!

  Thomas Cole

  Old Things, All Alone, Ifs

  Thomas Cole, Louis Legrand Noble (1853). “The Course of Empire: Voyage of Life, and Other Pictures of Thomas Cole, N.A., with Selections from His Letters and Miscellaneous Writings: Illustrative of His Life, Character, and Genius”, p.81

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• 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.

  Thomas Cole

  Understanding, Discrimination, Tenacity

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