A Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems.

Rudolf Arnheim

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Rudolf Arnheim
German - Artist
July 15, 1904 - June 9, 2007

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