#theory

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#art #differ #good #good art #household

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. ↗

— Christian Bale

#become #depending #end #i #life

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#also #because #i #movies #never

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#clue #confident #doing #even #look

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#audience #better #confuse #five #gamble

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#easier #emotionally #emotions #engineering #feelings

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #dramatic #economic #economy #large

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. ↗

— David Antin

#fundamental questions #i #pursuit #questions #sure

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. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#been #deal #dealing #elements #entropy

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. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#concerned #distribution #entropy #given #hand