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

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.

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.