value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

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".

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

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