Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Cinema is like dream.

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

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

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".

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.