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

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

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

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

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

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.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.