A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole cat….

Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief"….

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own ….

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will….

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution..

Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can….

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

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for….

What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive.….

Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality….

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon t….

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

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one o….

Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always ….

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the pi….

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at th….

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….

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder..

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought..

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted..

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable..