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Rudolf Arnheim - From the Aging category:
As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Boredom category:
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Change category:
When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Choices category:
Every act is a visual judgement. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Clubs category:
At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Culture category:
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Education category:
The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Form category:
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Humility category:
Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination... (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Information category:
The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Lines category:
The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Methodology category:
A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Nature category:
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Opposites category:
Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Order category:
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Order category:
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Perception category:
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Prosperity category:
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Purpose category:
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Senses category:
The least touchable object in the world is the eye. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Simplicity category:
Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Theory category:
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Theory category:
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Theory category:
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Travel category:
In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Understanding category:
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Universe category:
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. (Rudolf Arnheim)
Rudolf Arnheim - From the Universe category:
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs. (Rudolf Arnheim)
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