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Would there be any truth in sa...

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Some popular quotations smell ...

Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. 'Suspension of disbelief' has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The experienced physician, mec...

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, 'sees' things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

It would be most wholesome if ...

It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

A good documentary or educatio...

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

A cloud can look like a camel,...

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Orderliness by itself is not s...

Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

No mature style of art in any ...

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

It is good to live in a countr...

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The more perfect our means of ...

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

A revolution must aim at the d...

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Nothing is more humbling than ...

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...

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The rehabilitation of order as...

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Every act is a visual judgemen...

Every act is a visual judgement.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Form is sometimes considered a...

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Order is a necessary condition...

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The principle of parsimony is ...

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Both art and science are bent ...

Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Climbing is a heroic liberatin...

Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The arts are neglected because...

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

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

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