Cinema is like dream.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

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

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

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.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.