When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This is often true of snapshots in which no pattern of salient shapes organizes the mass of vague and complex nuances.

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

The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

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