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

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

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

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

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.

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 function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.