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The least touchable object in ...

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Once it is recognized that pro...

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The line that describes the be...

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.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

What, then, is the basic diffe...

What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Just as a chemist 'isolates'...

Just as a chemist 'isolates' a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

From building a fire one can l...

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Variety is more than a means o...

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The fundamental peculiarity of...

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The ambition of instantaneous ...

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

When the thing observed... is ...

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Since mechanically obtained ra...

Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The foreign accent was a promi...

The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Art is continually working to ...

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The clarification of visual fo...

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Order is a necessary condition...

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Rather than be asked to abando...

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Modem science, then, maintains...

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

Now equilibrium is the very op...

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

When a system is considered in...

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

The arts, as a reflection of h...

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Rudolf Arnheim 87 quotes

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