The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude.… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
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… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
