Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 15, 1904 - June 9, 2007

Topics

ChangeBeautifulSimplicityDirection

The best thing we've learned is when you are attempting to write a full song, write a full song that day. When we first started, we would have great ideas, but there's something about a moment and a vibe that's being created in time that when you return to it, it sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn't.

Jillian Hervey

GreatTimeMomentBestDayIdeas

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Joey Santiago

TimeStupidMysteryYouDownTry

I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

Matthew Walker

OpportunityMyselfSleepNightGive

In my mid-twenties, I was with a conducting career, but I had never been to university and I wanted to. There were things I wanted to study in depth. I also wanted to see if I could survive without music.

Simon Rattle

MusicSurviveCareerNeverSee

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Jules Verne

TruthScienceMistakesLeadUpMade

People often want the big dramatic works, not the smaller quieter ones, but I don't worry about how it fits together anymore; I just have to do it. I feel compelled to make a work: it's like an itch I have to scratch, and once it's been scratched, it goes away.

Cornelia Parker

WorkTogetherPeopleFeelWorryBig

Windows never planned for a VR device. When you plug a HDMI cable into the computer, Windows thinks it's a new monitor. The desktop blinks. It tries to rearrange windows and icons.

Brendan Iribe

YouWindowsNewNeverPlannedVR

Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.

Winston Duke

CultureFashionStrongerYouKnowing

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

TravelI AmPeopleEnvironmental

My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

Penn Jillette

CarHairLongLong HairCountryWay

We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating.

Sharon Salzberg

LiveHappinessGreatWorldEnough

There have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business axioms might be to sort of keep aspiring as an artist in the long term, and the 'Tusk' album was one of those times.

Lindsey Buckingham

BusinessLongArtistOverWhatever

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