Rudolf Arnheim Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim
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“A 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.”
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“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.”
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“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.”
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“At 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.”
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“Entropy 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 found in a smaller sample of them.”
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“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 kinds of items in a given arrangement.”
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“Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.”
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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.”
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“In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.”
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“In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.”
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