Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the…

Rudolf Arnheim
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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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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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