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“Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.”

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

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Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

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