common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable..

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given..

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

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

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….

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

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….

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….

Music is our myth of the inner life..

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

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

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

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life..

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

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

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….

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

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….

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