The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

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

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

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

It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.