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

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

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

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

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