Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

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

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.