Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

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

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

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

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.