“Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is a means of rendering understandable the environment and the self.”

About Rudolf Arnheim

Author • German-American

Rudolf Arnheim was a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist whose work was heavily influenced by Gestalt psychology. He argued that perception itself is an active, cognitive process of...