Rudolf Arnheim Quotes & Sayings

“In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.”

“Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.”

“The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.”

“Rather than be asked to abandon one's 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.”

“The least touchable object in the world is the eye.”

“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.”

“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.”