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 LangerWe 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.
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 LangerLanguage is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
Susanne Katherina Langer