Susanne Katherina Langer Quotes about Feelings

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Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Art, Feelings, Creation

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Understanding, Feelings

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

Susanne Katherina Langer

Art, Nature, Feelings

Mind: An Essay in Human Feeling vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4 (1967)

Music is 'significant form,' and its significance is that of a symbol, a highly articulated, sensuous object, which by virtue of its dynamic structure can express the forms of vital experience which language is peculiarly unfit to convey. Feeling, life, motion and emotion constitute its import.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Music, Feelings, Emotion

the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Discrepancies Between, Feelings, Intuition

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.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Art, Nature, Feelings