Art Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

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

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

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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 also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the…

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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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