Rudolf Arnheim Quotes

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Rudolf Arnheim

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• The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Perfect
  • Mean
  • Understanding