“Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.” ScienceCynical Author:Rudolf Arnheim
“Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.” ArtScienceViewsEffectsAppearanceSignificantSubstanceAbstractThemeWorks Of ArtChemistGeneralitiesDiagramsContamination Book:Visual Thinking Source: Visual Thinking
“Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.” FirstsMayFormScienceFoundDealsTheoryElementsStructurePropertySampleEntropy Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.” KindHandsScienceGivenTheoryConcernedSeriesArrangementsProbabilityDistributionItemsSuccessionEntropyProbability Theory Book:Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
