As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

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 first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.