... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

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

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.