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

- Rudolf Arnheim

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…

- Rudolf Arnheim

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

- Rudolf Arnheim

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

- Rudolf Arnheim

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…

- Rudolf Arnheim

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 …

- Rudolf Arnheim

Every act is a visual judgement.

- Rudolf Arnheim

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

- Rudolf Arnheim

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…

- Rudolf Arnheim