Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that…

— Rudolf Arnheim

It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But…

— Rudolf Arnheim

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are…

— Rudolf Arnheim

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

— Rudolf Arnheim

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see.…

— Rudolf Arnheim

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

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire…

— Rudolf Arnheim

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a…

— Rudolf Arnheim

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states,…

— Rudolf Arnheim