“The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.” FactsEyeArtistLinesWealthSecretColorRhythmTensionContrastContinuityFusion Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.” FactsLyingValuesFitIntellectual Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“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.” MindRealFactsAgeCultureHigherStandardsCriticismHistoricalDestroyedRealisticHistorianMathematicianPhysicistApostlesOrientation Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.” FactsVirtueTestsScientistMathematicsAcceptedObservationCalculationsImplicit Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.” DoeFactsIndividualProcessKnownEventsUniqueAimPatternsLinksHistorianHypothetical Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
