1. “Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.”
2. “In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.”
3. “In a land of immigrants one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.”
4. “Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday object.”
5. “The least touchable object in the world is the eye.”
6. “Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.”
7. “Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.”
8. “Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderlyarrangements is inbred by evolution.”
9. “Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.”
10. “Every act is a visual judgement.”
11. “All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.”
12. “A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only asserting an order of its own.”
13. “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.”
14. “Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.”
15. “Modern science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man’s actions are governed by the same tendency.”
