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

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

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

- 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…

- Susanne Katherina Langer

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

- Susanne Katherina Langer

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

- Susanne Katherina Langer

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

- Susanne Katherina Langer

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

- Susanne Katherina Langer

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

- Susanne Katherina Langer