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.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

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

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

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

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.