"Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features……" — Rudolf Arnheim
"Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail."
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Rudolf Arnheim
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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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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
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Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked…
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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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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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The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to…
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
— Aristotle
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Reality simply consists of different points of view.
— Margaret Atwood
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
— Henry Adams
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
— Konrad Adenauer
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself,…
— Annie Besant
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
— Theodor Adorno
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