Rudolf Arnheim Quote

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.

Visual Thinking (ed. Univ of California Press, 2004) - ISBN: 9780520242265

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...

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...

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...

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...