Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

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.

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

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.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

Every person that comes to court deserves a fair process.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.