The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

" Arnheim moved to England in 1939 where he took on a position as a radio translator with BBC Radio in which as a person was speaking he translated from German to English and vice versa. ISBN 978-0-520-20478-2. He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954) Visual Thinking (1969) and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982) but it is Art and Visual Perception for which he was most widely known.

[according to whom?]. Revised enlarged and publiRudolf Arnheimd as a New Version in 1974 it has been translated into 14 languages and is very likely one of the most widely read and influential art books of the twentieth century. Rudolf Arnheim (July 15 1904 – June 9 2007) was a German-born author art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist.