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Suzanne Langer Quotes



Quotes by Suzanne Langer - (8 quotes)

Suzanne Langer - From the Art category:

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. (Suzanne Langer)

Suzanne Langer - From the Emotion category:

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling. (Suzanne Langer)

Suzanne Langer - From the Form category:

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. (Suzanne Langer)

Suzanne Langer - From the Nature category:

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably. (Suzanne Langer)

Suzanne Langer - From the Philosophy category:

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of them. (Suzanne Langer)

Suzanne Langer - From the Questions category:

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. (Suzanne Langer)

Suzanne Langer - From the Reality category:

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. (Suzanne Langer)

Suzanne Langer - From the Seeing category:

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color. (Suzanne Langer)