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From Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim
- Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality.…
- Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
- 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…
- The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his…
- 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…
- 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…
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