Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.
Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.
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| Birth: | 15th July, 1904 |
| Death: | 9th June, 2007 |
| Nationality: | American, German |
| Profession: | Author, Theorist |
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Rudolf Arnheim was a German-born author, art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist. He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, Visual Thinking, and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, but it is Art and Visual Perception for which he was most widely known.
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