Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes

• value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

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  Matter, Consciousness, Felt

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• What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

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  Understanding, Feelings

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• La mayoría de los nuevos descubrimientos son cosas que se ven de repente y que siempre han estado ahí. Una idea nueva es una luz que ilumina presencias que simplemente no tenían forma antes de que la luz cayera sobre ellas.

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  Discovery, Illumination, Ideas

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• Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

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  Art, Feelings, Creation

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• El fuego es un símbolo natural de vida y pasión, aunque es el único elemento en el que nada puede vivir realmente.

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  Passion, Fire, Elements

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• Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

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  Music Is, Analogue

  "Feeling and Form". Book by Susanne Katherina Langer, ch. 1, p. 27, 1953.

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• Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

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  Art, Nature, Feelings

  Mind: An Essay in Human Feeling vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4 (1967)

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• 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.

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  Music, Feelings, Emotion

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

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  Doubt, Mind, Mysterious

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• 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.

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  Discrepancies Between, Feelings, Intuition

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• The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.

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  Assessment, Answers, May

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• Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

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  Art, Term, Art Is

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• If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

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  Creativity, Knowledge, World

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• 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.

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  Art, Emotional, Poetic

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• The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

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  Art, Reality, First Impression

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• 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.

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  Art, Reality, Giving

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

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  Common Sense, Instruments, Tricky

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

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  Art, Beholder, Function

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• The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

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  Mind, Limits, Poverty

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• 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".

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  Real, Animal, Men

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• Pioneering is the work of individuals.

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  Pioneers, Individual, Pioneering

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• Music is our myth of the inner life.

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  Music, Music Is, Myth

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• The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

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  Lying, Intellectual, Facts

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• Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

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  Discovery, New Discoveries

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

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  Able, Bears

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