"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical.……" — Rudolf Arnheim
"The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points."
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Rudolf Arnheim
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38 Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim
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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
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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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