Order Is A Prerequisite Of Survival; Therefore

The Arts, As A Reflection Of Human Existence At Its Highest, Have Always And Spontaneously Lived Up To This Demand Of Plenitude. No Mature Style Of Art In Any Culture Has Ever Been Simple.

What, Then, Is The Basic Difference Between Today's Computer And An Intelligent Being? It Is That The Computer Can Be Made To Seebut Not To Perceive. What Matters Here Is Not That The Computer Is Without Consciousness But That Thus Far It Is Incapable Of The Spontaneous Grasp Of Pattern--a Capacity Essential To Perception And Intelligence.

All Perceiving Is Also Thinking, All Reasoning Is Also Intuition, All Observation Is Also Invention.

The More Perfect Our Means Of Direct Experience, The More Easily We Are Caught By The Dangerous Illusion That Perceiving Is Tantamount To Knowing And Understanding.

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.