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

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Cinema is like dream.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.