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.

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

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

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.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.