Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

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

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Thinking, Perception, Intuition

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

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  Art, Perception, Neglected

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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• Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.

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  Communication, Sleep, Writing

  Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• Ya no podemos considerar lo que hace el artista como una actividad autónoma, misteriosamente inspirada desde arriba, sin relación ni relación con otras actividades humanas. Por el contrario, reconocemos que la exaltada forma de ver que conduce a la creación de grandes obras de arte es una consecuencia de la actividad más humilde y común de los ojos en la vida cotidiana. Del mismo modo que la prosaica búsqueda de información es "artística" porque implica dar y encontrar forma y significado, la concepción del artista es un instrumento de vida, una forma refinada de entender quiénes somos y dónde estamos.

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  Art, Eye, Self

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

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  Art, Reflection, Simple

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

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  Mean, Knowing, Perfect

  Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

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  Art, Thinking, Cognition

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• Every act is a visual judgement.

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  Choices, Judgement, Visuals

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• Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

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  Order, Understanding, Mind

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

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  Eye, World, Objects

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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• But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

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  Art, Shapes, Bears

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.300, Univ of California Press

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• Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

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  Order, Survival, Inbreds

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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• Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Everyday Objects, Familiarity

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• When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

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  Nuance, Details, Snapshots

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.44, Univ of California Press

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• De encender un fuego se puede aprender algo sobre composición artística. Si utilizas sólo leña pequeña y troncos grandes, el fuego devorará rápidamente los trozos pequeños pero no tendrá fuerza suficiente para atacar a los grandes. Hay que proporcionar una escala de tamaños del más pequeño al más grande. El ojo humano tampoco se abrirá paso en un cuadro o un edificio a menos que un continuo de formas conduzca de lo pequeño a lo grande, de lo grande a lo pequeño.

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  Strong, Eye, Fire

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• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

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  Art, Dedication, Order

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• A medida que uno se hace mayor, ocurre que por la mañana no se acuerda del viaje en avión que va a hacer dentro de unas horas o de la conferencia programada para la tarde.

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  Good Morning, Travel, Taken

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.

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  Photography, Ambition, Action

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• La línea que describe lo bello es elíptica. Tiene simplicidad y cambio constante. No se puede describir con una brújula y cambia de dirección en cada uno de sus puntos.

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  Beautiful, Swag, Simplicity

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

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  Order, Succeed, Revolution

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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• The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

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  Artist, Principles, Purpose

  Rudolf Arnheim (1954). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• En una tierra de inmigrantes, uno no era un extranjero, sino simplemente el último en llegar.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Land, Aliens, Immigrants

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• Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

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  Men, Psychology, World

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.

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  Art, Science, Views

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.273, Univ of California Press

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• El equilibrio es lo contrario del desorden.

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  Opposites, Disorder, Equilibrium

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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