“Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.” FeelingsFormEmotionBuildingArtisticBuilding UpDynamism Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“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.” IfsArtMatterFeelingsNatureArt IsTransformationWorks Of ArtProjectionKinship Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.” WayFeelingsPainFeltEmotionMarkTensionBroadsMentalityInwardStimulusSensory Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“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.” GivingArtFeelingsRealityEmotionArt IsCorruptionNeglectSubjectiveArt Education Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.” MayReasonFeelingsFormIntelligenceIntuitionIntellectWideUnrealImprobableDiscrepanciesDiscrepancies Between Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.” KnowsWayMindPersonsFeelingsRunningVoiceDealsKnownMagicLimitsCapacityFairsWeightInfiniteBlowSpeedRangeEnduranceArrows Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“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.” FeelingsFormLanguageEmotionMusicVirtueObjectsMusic IsStructureSignificantSymbolsSignificanceImportsSensuous Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.” KindArtFeelingsRealityArtistMemoriesIntellectualTestsMusicalPoeticConstructionPlasticScopeTouchstones Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.” FeelingsUnderstanding Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.” ArtFeelingsNatureArt IsObjectification Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.” HumansArtFeelingsFormCreationArt IsSymbolic Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
