Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
Arnheim, Rudolf. Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order. University of California Press, 1971, p. 5.
This was one of the great scientific predictions of how science would develop.
This quotation is important for politicians who appropriate research funds. There are many, important, significant, scientific findings, that are inherent to what we already know, but needs the scientific person-power and time to “work it out.”
This is one of the first written statements that primary causes should be studied by man and not just accepted as mysteries created by God. At the time, all of the sciences and mathematics were considered part of natural philosophy.
Rudolf Arnheim was a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He learned Gestalt psychology from studying under Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler at the University of Berlin and applied it to art. His magnum opus was his book Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954). Other major books by Arnheim have included Visual Thinking (1969), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982). Art and Visual Perception was revised, enlarged and published as a new version in 1974, and it has been translated into fourteen languages. He lived in Germany, Italy, England, and America where he taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan. He has greatly influenced art history and psychology in America.
