The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

The 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.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

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