In E. Cassirer's philosophy Symbol and Symbolic are the general category which contains all forms of cultural activity of human. He gives the widest concept of symbol - as a "sensual realization of ideal" - and by helping of sings Cassirer denotes all perception of reality as symbolic, which gives him possibility to systematize the whole diversity of cultural forms: language, knowledge, art, religion, on the basis of united principle, to understand the culture as a whole. The unity of culture would be achieved in the symbol not in its structure and content, but in its constructing principle.

Every symbolic form presents definite faculty of perception by means of is constructed particular part of reality. As there are some alternative forms of existence by Cassirer as there are "alternative phenomenological worlds". The art as a symbolic form with the language, myth and science creates its own phenomenological world.

The art is a "discovery" and interpretation (representation) of reality not by concept, but by intuition, not by thought, but by sensual forms. The art's forms don't represent forms of reality. The main problem is the human experience constructing and organization. The art's fundamental character as the other symbolic forms is the constructing and creating of our human world.