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 appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.
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
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
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…
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. - Rudolf Arnheim
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
Every act is a visual judgement. - Rudolf Arnheim
Every act is a visual judgement.
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
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…
The least touchable object in the world is the eye. - Rudolf Arnheim
The least touchable object in the world is the eye.
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
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, 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
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…
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. - Rudolf Arnheim
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
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