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 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
