Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling..

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before..

Music is our myth of the inner life..

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters..

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live..

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding..

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form befor….

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the l….

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of….

Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structur….

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts w….

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience..

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as….

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expressio….

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature..

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neg….

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensi….

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind..

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality..

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms..

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life..