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

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

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

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

Music is our myth of the inner life.

The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".

Cinema is like dream.