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

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

... 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.

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

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.