In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
From Rudolf Arnheim
The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
The least touchable object in the world is the eye.
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.
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.
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.
Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.
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.
The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.
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