In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.