Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

Able

Camels

Clouds

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

Documentaries

Educational

Film

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

Order

Revolution

Succeed

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.

Arms

Two

Weight

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

Intuition

Perception

Thinking

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

Art

Everyday Objects

Familiarity

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.

Good Morning

Taken

Travel

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.

Confusion

Hospitality

Mets

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.

Art

Dedication

Order

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.

Art

Bears

Shapes

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Able

Action

Airplane

Aliens

Ambition

Animal

Arms

Art

Artist

Bears

Beautiful

Blessing

Camels

Change

Choices

Class

Climbing

Clouds

Cognition

Communication

Confusion

Country

Dance

Dark

Dedication

Details

Differences

Disorder

Documentaries

Drawing

Education

Educational

Elements

Equilibrium

Everyday Objects

Eye

Fall

Familiarity

Film

Fire

Firsts

Fundamentals

Giving

Good Morning

Grasping

Hands

Heritage

Hospitality

Humility

Immigrants

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Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim

A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

A good documentary or educational film is not raw experience. The material has passed the mill of reason, it has been sifted and interpreted.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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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