The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

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

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.

Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.