A well-timed treat can get a sublime expression.
Homer's epics extend their concern from the right treatment of strangers to behaviour in situations of deep involvement among rival heroes, their foes, and the overseeing gods; the tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles are a sublime expression of man's breakthrough into moral awareness of his situation.
Here, in western words, written about 1913, is a sublime expression of Buddhist Tantra: It is through this life that we can find the unfathomable, the divine.
Writing in the catalogue that accompanies 4900 Colours at the Serpentine, Birgit Pelzer remarks of Richter's work that "the painted colour charts attempted to be as far away as possible from the emotive and sublime, from expression and lyricism.
Yet it was more than just a gimmick, the correspondence between the two Johnsons proved to be instructive: both created sublime musical expressions of melancholy.
If man's autocracy, his genius, his powers of generation, have all passed to the machine, and if the pulpy, material base for the refined and abstract thoughts and emotions that we read in books has been revealed to us, then how can we understand poetry or prose as the sublime self-expression of autonomous and elevated individuals?
The marvels of this exhibition testify to the human need to improve, refine and perfect, turning a means of survival into a sublime vehicle of expression.
Her new series of monochromes is composed of large squares of coloured fabric, loosely slung on the wall to suggest both a drawn drape and modernist abstraction, like Barnett Newman's colour-field paintings or Rothko's textured plains of pigment in which you might unearth the sublime or the expression of spiritual angst.
But it's this tension between form and expression, like the sublime shaping of lines required by the rules of the sonnet, that gives good nonfiction its real beauty.
The heroes treat their derring-do as the good-natured expression of their own sublime high spirits.
Indeed, painters no longer need to seek for new inventions, novel attitudes, clothed figures, fresh ways of expression, different arrangements, or sublime subjects, for this work contains every perfection possible under those headings".
