Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

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

Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.