Variety Is More Than A Means Of

No Longer Can We Consider What The Artist Does To Be A Self-contained Activity, Mysteriously Inspired From Above, Unrelated And Unrelatable To Other Human Activities. Instead, We Recognize The Exalted Kind Of Seeing That Leads To The Creation Of Great Art As An Outgrowth Of The Humbler And More Common Activity Of The Eyes In Everyday Life. Just As The Prosaic Search For Information Is "artistic" Because It Involves Giving And Finding Shape And Meaning, So The Artist's Conceiving Is An Instrument Of Life, A Refined Way Of Understanding Who And Where We Are.

The Clarification Of Visual Forms And Their Organization In Integrated Patterns As Well As The Attribution Of Such Forms To Suitable Objects Is One Of The Most Effective Training Grounds Of The Young Mind.

Every Act Is A Visual Judgement.

As One Gets Older, It Happens That In The Morning One Fails To Remember The Airplane Trip To Be Taken In A Few Hours Or The Lecture Scheduled For The Afternoon.

When A System Is Considered In Two Different States, The Difference In Volume Or In Any Other Property, Between The Two States, Depends Solely Upon Those States Themselves And Not Upon The Manner In Which The System May Pass From One State To The Other.