Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.
Susanne Katherina LangerAs comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
Susanne Katherina LangerFeeling, 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.
Susanne Katherina LangerAll persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.
Susanne Katherina LangerFire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
Susanne Katherina Langer