Rudolf Arnheim

Artist

26 Quotes

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

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

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

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

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.

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.

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