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

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

... 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.

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.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.