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It Would Be Most Wholesome If For At Least Twenty Years Art Historians Were Forbidden To Refer To Any Derivations. If They Were Not Allowed To Account For A Work Of Art Mainly By Tracing Where It Comes From, They Would Have To Deal With It In And By Itself--which Is What They Are Most Needed For.

Some Popular Quotations Smell Of Airless Closets. They Exhale The Stale Imagination Of The Intellectual Lower Middle Class. "suspension Of Disbelief" Has Become One Of Them. Dressed Up As A Scintillating Double Negation, It Serves The Pedestrian Notion Of Art As Illusion.

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 Ambition Of Instantaneous Photography... Was That Of Preserving The Spontaneity Of Action And Avoiding Any Indication That The Presence Of The Picture Taker Had A Modifying Influence On What Was Going On.

Entropy Theory Is Indeed A First Attempt To Deal With Global Form; But It Has Not Been Dealing With Structure. All It Says Is That A Large Sum Of Elements May Have Properties Not Found In A Smaller Sample Of Them.