Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

Rudolf Arnheim

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• I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • History
  • View

• The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Risk
  • Ability
  • Happen

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lies

• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Future
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Government
  • Justice

• My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Stuck
  • Rut

• 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

• The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Challenges
  • Learned
  • Lessons

• I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Pretty
  • Dance
  • Brother

• When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Unique

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
  • Now
  • Foot

• Choose again.

  

  Dan Simmons

• Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Legend

• It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Important
  • Angry

• Without question, I'm not a fan of the EPA. The EPA has overstepped their boundaries each and every day. They get into areas they shouldn't be involved in... the states have the right to regulate themselves if they have the ability to do so - and we do because we have the Department of Environmental Quality.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Question
  • Quality

• I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Way
  • Mean
  • Surprising

• Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Science

• To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Running
  • Moving

• Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choices
  • Made
  • Sum

• No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love.

  

  Plato
  • Live
  • Laws
  • Citizens

• Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Everyday
  • Objects