Afternoon Quote by 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 relaxation within…

— 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 account for…

— Rudolf Arnheim

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

— Rudolf Arnheim