The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion … - Rudolf Arnheim

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With my dog I don't get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don't want to go out. He wants me to leave.

Rudolf Arnheim

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

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

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The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

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Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.

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Every act is a visual judgement.

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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.

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