The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose..

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

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direc….

Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent ….

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discov….

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, ….

When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often ….

It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival..

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own..

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….

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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 ….

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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….