“The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.” IfsDoeDifferentWould BeDrawingWoundsPreparationExpertsCopiesEnginesPhysiciansMechanicNovicesLayman Book:Visual Thinking Source: Visual Thinking
“Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.” WorldWayArtMadeDifferentAgeOrderForceUnderstandingExistenceAcceptingMiddleSubjectsDisciplineShapesStatementsDifferent WaysDedicationTolerateBentMiddle AgesCriteriaPrecisionSignaturesSubjectivitySensoryArt And ScienceCapricious Author:Rudolf Arnheim
“When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.” MayTwoDifferentStatesChangeDifferencesDependsPropertyVolume Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order