Quote

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Susanne Katherina Langer
Things
Discoveries
Suddenly
Discovery
Seen
Always

More quotes by Susanne Katherina Langer

Image
Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the higher criticism, the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Music is our myth of the inner life.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
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
Image
Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Cinema is like dream.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
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.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
The fairytale is irresponsible it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.
Susanne Katherina Langer
Image
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
Image
The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.
Susanne Katherina Langer