It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to accoun….

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….

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, ….

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses..

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..

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

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 ….

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

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

Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?.

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….

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