The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it… — 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
