The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

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

Cinema is like dream.

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.

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

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