The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.
Susanne Katherina LangerAll persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Susanne Katherina LangerAs comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
Susanne Katherina LangerThe 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.
Susanne Katherina Langer