Since Mechanically Obtained Randomness Contains

Orderliness By Itself Is Not Sufficient To Account For The Nature Of Organized Systems In General Or For Those Created By Man In Particular. Mere Orderliness Leads To Increasing Impoverishment And Finally To The Lowest Possible Level Of Structure, No Longer Clearly Distinguishable From Chaos, Which Is The Absence Of Order. A Counterprinciple Is Needed, To Which Orderliness Is Secondary. It Must Supply What Is To Be Ordered.

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.

A Good Documentary Or Educational Film Is Not Raw Experience. The Material Has Passed The Mill Of Reason, It Has Been Sifted And Interpreted.

It Is Good To Live In A Country Where All Are Immigrants ... The Newcomer Is Simply The Latest Arrival.

Now The Work Of Art Also Represents A State Of Final Equilibrium, Of Accomplished Order And Maximum Relative Entropy, And There Are Those Who Resent It. But Art Is Not Meant To Stop The Stream Of Life. Within A Narrow Span Of Duration And Space The Work Of Art Concentrates A View Of The Human Condition; And Sometimes It Marks The Steps Of Progression, Just As A Man Climbing The Dark Stairs Of A Medieval Tower Assures Himself By The Changing Sights Glimpsed Through Its Narrow Windows That He Is Getting Somewhere After All.