Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
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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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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Those who believe that racial preferences can help to 'even the score' display, and reinforce, a manner of thinking about race that was the source of the injustice and that will, if it endures within our society, be the source of more injustice still.
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Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.
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And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
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The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out what was changed hundreds of years before.
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I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.
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And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?
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Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind.
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How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwards.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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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.
