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

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

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.

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.

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.

whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.

Henry figured that the reason the Cheyenne had always ridden Appaloosas into battle was because by the time the men got there, they were so angry with the horses they were ready to kill everything.

Love isn't a perfect state of caring.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.