“It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.” IfsYearsArtWould BeDealsNeededAccountsTwentiesWorks Of ArtHistorianForbiddenTracing Book:Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest
“Orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. Mere orderliness leads to increasing impoverishment and finally to the lowest possible level of structure, no longer clearly distinguishable from chaos, which is the absence of order. A counterprinciple is needed, to which orderliness is secondary. It must supply what is to be ordered.” MenOrderLevelsParticularNeededAccountsStructureMereChaosAbsenceSufficientOrganizedLowestOrderliness Author:Rudolf Arnheim
“The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.” MenOrderPrinciplesParticularUniversalAccountsSufficientOrganizedRehabilitationOrderliness Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
