Cinema Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

“A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.”

Rudolf Arnheim

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

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

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

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

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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…

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It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not…

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

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

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Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

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