“Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.” FeelingsFormEmotionBuildingArtisticBuilding UpDynamism Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.” MindIdeasUseFormSignificanceConceptionExploitsSelectiveIntangible 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
“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
“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.” ArtFormFeltEmotionalDirectStructureArtisticPoeticWorks Of ArtProjectionSensuousSpatialEmotional Life Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".” MenMindHumansRealFormCertainGivenProcessUnderstandingAnimalIssuesMankindGoes OnConceptsDefinitionsRationalSymbolsDataCharacteristicsUnconsciousHuman MindConceptionTraitsSpontaneousIrrelevantAbstractionRecognizingConfiguration Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.” HumansArtFeelingsFormCreationArt IsSymbolic Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.” IdeasLightFormDiscoveryNew IdeasIlluminationUnpredictabilityNew Discoveries Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
