"The first impression of a work of art……" — Susanne Katherina Langer
"The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality."
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19 Quotes by Susanne Katherina Langer
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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
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Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which…
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
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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…
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In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a…
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The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only…
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The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet…
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A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
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The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
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The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
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Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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