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. Rudolf Arnheim Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. Rudolf Arnheim Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. Rudolf Arnheim Read Quote
Man’s 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 Read Quote
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Rudolf Arnheim Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. Rudolf Arnheim Read Quote
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. Rudolf Arnheim Read Quote
