All History Is The History Of Thought.

The Dance Is The Mother Of All Languages.

As A Child Growing Up Among Artists I Learned To Think Of A Picture Not As A Finished Product Exposed For The Admiration Of The Virtuosi, But As The Visible Record, Lying About The House, Of An Attempt To Solve A Definite Problem In Painting.

To Regard Such A Positive Mental Science [psychology] As Rising Above The Sphere Of History, And Establishing The Permanent And Unchanging Laws Of Human Nature, Is Therefore Possible Only To A Person Who Mistakes The Transient Conditions Of A Certain Historical Age For The Permanent Conditions Of Human Life.

The Romantic Artist Expects People To Ask, 'what Has He Got To Say?' The Classical Artist Expects Them To Ask, 'how Does He Say It?

The Aim Of Science Is To Apprehend This Purely Intelligible World As A Thing In Itself, An Object Which Is What It Is Independently Of All Thinking, And Thus Antithetical To The Sensible World.... The World Of Thought Is The Universal, The Timeless And Spaceless, The Absolutely Necessary, Whereas The World Of Sense Is The Contingent, The Changing And Moving Appearance Which Somehow Indicates Or Symbolizes It.