Rudolf Arnheim Quote

Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.

Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest (ed. Univ of California Press, 1990) - ISBN: 9780520909052