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In a work of art, however modest, the peculiar character of life is always reflected in the fact that it has no parts which keep their qualitative identity in isolation. In the simplest design, the virtual constituents are indivisible, and inalienable from the whole.

— Susanne Langer Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967)

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

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

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Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

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