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.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Every act is a visual judgement.

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

The one ring, to rule them all’? Sounds very far-fetched to me!

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.

Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.

Winning the Ballon d’Or never bothered me. I just wanted to play for Manchester United.