The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

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

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The world of physics is essentially the real world construed by mathematical abstractions, and the world of sense is the real world construed by the abstractions which the sense-organs immediately furnish. To suppose that the "material mode" is a primitive and groping attempt at physical conception is a fatal error in epistemology.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.