Rudolf ArnheimSeeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim (2004). Visual Thinking, p.68, Univ of California… ▶351Thought
Rudolf ArnheimGood art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim (2004). Art and Visual Perc… ▶351Sadness
Rudolf ArnheimAs 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 afternoon. ✨ Rudolf Arn… ▶374Thought
Rudolf ArnheimThe least touchable object in the world is the eye. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim (1990). Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest, p.13, Univ of Califor… ▶344Sadness
Rudolf ArnheimIn a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.366Philosophy
Rudolf ArnheimThe 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 body, the sense of balance tha… ▶356Love
Rudolf ArnheimThe 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 had to give was not considere… ▶335Reflection
Rudolf ArnheimAt 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 the same hotel. ✨ Rudol… ▶348HumanityTime
Rudolf ArnheimVariety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim (1974). Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and O… ▶304Time
Rudolf ArnheimEntropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not … ▶305Truth
Rudolf ArnheimBoth 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 tolerate capricious subjectiv… ▶284LifePoliticsTruth
Rudolf ArnheimThe rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized syste… ▶241Time
Rudolf ArnheimThe arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim (2004). Visual Thinki… ▶3210Thought
Rudolf ArnheimAll perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim (2004). Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the … ▶255Thought
Rudolf ArnheimNothing 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 discover that nevertheless it is scu… ▶277Time
Rudolf ArnheimClimbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, ball… ▶183HumanityLifePolitics
Rudolf ArnheimThe line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its point… ▶194Thought
Rudolf ArnheimEntropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangem… ▶164Politics
Rudolf ArnheimOnce it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.179Thought
Rudolf ArnheimA 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 the arms of a pair of scales. 1310Death
