All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.

The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

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

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.