Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.
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I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
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I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
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I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.
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When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.
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People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
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America should function as a Christian nation.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or all bad - when the truth is always much more complex.
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“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface, of a light absorbent material, absolutely bare of details, and of which the decoration is formed by a composition of shadows, drawn by shadows still darker.”
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Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
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Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
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Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
