The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.
Susanne Katherina LangerThe high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.
Susanne Katherina LangerAll persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Susanne Katherina LangerThe dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.
Susanne Katherina Langer