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The Arts Are Neglected Because They Are Based On Perception, And Perception Is Disdained Because It Is Not Assumed To Involve Thought.

When A System Is Considered In Two Different States, The Difference In Volume Or In Any Other Property, Between The Two States, Depends Solely Upon Those States Themselves And Not Upon The Manner In Which The System May Pass From One State To The Other.

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.

The Clarification Of Visual Forms And Their Organization In Integrated Patterns As Well As The Attribution Of Such Forms To Suitable Objects Is One Of The Most Effective Training Grounds Of The Young Mind.

The Principle Of Parsimony Is Valid Esthetically In That The Artist Must Not Go Beyond What Is Needed For His Purpose.