In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest ar…

Rudolf Arnheim
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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Good 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 Perception: A Psychology of th … ▶
The 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 points. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim … ▶
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 afternoon. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim (1990). Parables of S … ▶
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. ✨ Rudolf Arnheim (2004). Visual Thinking, p.68, Univ of California Press
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