Complexes Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

— David Byrne

A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing.…

— David Biespiel

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

— Rudolf Arnheim

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

— Dan Brown

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

— Anton Chekhov

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved…

— Alberto Giacometti

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a…

— Don DeLillo

Sightings of shape shifting dissolved into the darkness. A final opinion is of less value than an appreciation of, and tolerance for obscurity.

— Chiodos

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.

— Sean Lennon

There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not…

— Nicole Krauss