Coleridge said that every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect. — John Dewey

The true antithesis of nature is not art but arbitrary conceit, fantasy, and stereotyped convention.

When there is genuine artistry in scientific inquiry and philosophic speculation, a thinker proceeds neither by rule nor yet blindly, but by means of meaning that exist immediately as feelings having qualitative color.

We cannot grasp any idea, any organ of meditation, we cannot possess it in full force, until we have felt and sensed it, as much so as if it were an odor or a color.