Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4.
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
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Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything.
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.
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I'd like to interview Rita Ora - I think she's really cool.
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Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
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Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
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The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
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Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.
