Susanne K. Langer: Quotes about art

Susanne K. Langer was American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on art.
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“Art is the objectification of feeling.”

Susanne K. Langer

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

Art , Feeling

“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 K. Langer

Vol. 1, p. 200
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling (1967, 1972, 1982)

Life , Parting , Art

“The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.”

Susanne K. Langer

Source: Philosophical Sketches (1962), Ch. 5, p. 94

Bad luck , Nature , Art , Reality

“Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.”

Susanne K. Langer

Source: Feeling and Form (1953), Ch. 3, p. 40

Feeling , Art