Susanne Langer Quote

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.


Philosophical Sketches: A Study of the Human Mind in Relation to Feeling, Explored Through Art, Language, and Symbol (1962)


The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that...

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that...

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that...

The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that...