The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see.….

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

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 ….

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 g….

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other ….

Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We ….

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 ele….

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….

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 a….

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kind….

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

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

The least touchable object in the world is the eye..

Every act is a visual judgement..

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….

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 sk….

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 ….

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 ord….

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….

Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail..

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of va….