Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim

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. (Rudolf Arnheim)

Disintegration and excessive tension reduction must be attributed to the absence or impotence of articulate structure. (Rudolf Arnheim)

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. (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 kinds of items in a given arrangement. (Rudolf Arnheim)

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival. (Rudolf Arnheim)

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. (Rudolf Arnheim)

Mans striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. (Rudolf Arnheim)

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that mans actions are governed by the same tendency. (Rudolf Arnheim)

Rather than be asked to abandon ones own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. (Rudolf Arnheim)

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind. (Rudolf Arnheim)