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

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.

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

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

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

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.