The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
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… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
