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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.

Ideas

Mind

Use

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

Art

Art Is

Term

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art

Creation

Feelings

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

Art

Feelings

Nature

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.

Art

Emotional

Poetic

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

Common

Common Sense

Prompts

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

Building Up

Emotion

Feelings

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.

Feelings

Inward

Pain

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

Art

Mark

Mysticism

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

Believe

Children

Princess

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Analogue

Animal

Answers

Art

Art Is

Assessment

Believe

Blow

Building Up

Children

Cities

Civilization

Common

Common Sense

Consciousness

Creation

Culture

Discrepancies Between

Dream

Emotion

Emotional

Errors

Facts

Feelings

Felt

Heart

Humanity

Ideas

Intellectual

Intuition

Inward

Light

Limits

Lying

Mark

Matter

May

Men

Mind

Music

Music Is

Mysticism

Nature

Normal

Order

Pain

Philosopher

Philosophical

Philosophy

Poetic

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Quotes by Susanne Katherina Langer

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.

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

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

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

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.

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

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.

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

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