Rudolf Arnheim Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dedication, Order

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

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Order, Understanding, Mind

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

• No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Eye, Self

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

• 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.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Mean, Knowing, Perfect

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

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