Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

Rudolf Arnheim

• Art
• Individual
• Invention
• Appearance
• Variety
• Witness

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Fashion

• I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Feel
  • Inspiration

• Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • You
  • Always

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Progress
  • Personality
  • Sacrifice

• No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Earth
  • Next
  • Allow

• There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • New
  • Engineering
  • Engineers

• Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Men
  • Old
  • Grow

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Intelligent

• Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know? It's okay if you don't know everything.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Why

• There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Money
  • Relationship
  • Imagination

• What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.

  

  Lindsay Pearce

• Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'

  

  Princess Eugenie of York
  • Up
  • She

• We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.

  

  Uri Geller
  • People
  • Real

• For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

  

  Paul Farmer
  • Suffering
  • Clarity
  • Eradicate

• Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Men
  • Words
  • inspirational

• But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Individual
  • Invention