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 Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neg… - Susanne Katherina Langer
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neg…
- Susanne Katherina Langer
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structur… - Susanne Katherina Langer
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structur…
value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters. - Susanne Katherina Langer
value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling. - Susanne Katherina Langer
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
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… - Susanne Katherina Langer
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…
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live. - Susanne Katherina Langer
Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind. - Susanne Katherina Langer
Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding. - Susanne Katherina Langer
What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. - Susanne Katherina Langer
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
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