The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

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.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

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