Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Rudolf Arnheim

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Car
  • Stress
  • Window

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Character
  • Right
  • Directors

• My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

  

  Patrick White
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Marriage

• I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Small
  • Born
  • California

• I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

  

  Gary Peters
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Kitchen

• I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Why
  • Think

• I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Like
  • Things
  • Dissecting

• When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Blonde
  • Brunette
  • Taxi

• On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Country
  • Rock

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Colors

• The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • People
  • Black
  • Scared

• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Music
  • Fall
  • King

• The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Disease
  • Here
  • Syndrome

• Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Family
  • Character
  • History

• Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Art

• I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Art

• I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which Andy had conceived of. I've never taken a picture since, not even with my phone! It just felt too Andy Warhol to keep going around town taking photographs. And I never really thought of doing anything with them after I left the magazine until this great Art Director Sam Shahid about for or five years ago asked where all of the old photos were.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Great
  • Art
  • Taken

• In our time the search for extraterrestrial life will eventually change our laws, our religions, our philosophies, our arts, our recreations, as well as our sciences. Space, the mirror, waits for life to come look for itself there.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Art
  • Waiting
  • Philosophy

• The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Perception
  • Neglected