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

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

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

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

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 development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.