Baker Brownell Professions : Philosopher Born : December 12, 1887 Died : April 5, 1965 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Baker Brownell Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own. Baker Brownell cosmos patterns art Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements. Baker Brownell movement dance art Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. Baker Brownell pressure spiritual integrity Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior. Baker Brownell communication mean art Similar Authors F. H. Bradley philosopher Irving Copi philosopher Ivan Ilyin philosopher Ivan Illich philosopher Bion of Borysthenes philosopher Bonaventure philosopher All Authors