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Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

German - Artist | July 15, 1904 - June 9, 2007

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

Immigrants Alien Land Simply Arrival

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Now Opposite Equilibrium Disorder

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

World Eye Object Least

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

Time Society American Hotel Same

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.

Country Spice Over Arts Give Accent

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.

First Structure Theory May Been Sum

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

Art Boredom Entertainment More Means

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.

Training Mind Organization Young

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Thinking Observation Invention Also

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Good Art Language Talk Smell Theory

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

Mind Understand Human Anything Order

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Morning Airplane Remember Afternoon

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