"Nothing is more humbling than to look with……" — Rudolf Arnheim
"Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination..."
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38 Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure.…
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but…
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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
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The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not…
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Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a…
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Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of…
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