"The arts are neglected because they are based……" — Rudolf Arnheim
"The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought."
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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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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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