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Both Art And Science Are Bent On The Understanding Of The Forces That Shape Existence, And Both Call For A Dedication To What Is. Neither Of Them Can Tolerate Capricious Subjectivity Because Both Are Subject To Their Criteria Of Truth. Both Require Precision, Order, And Discipline Because No Comprehensible Statement Can Be Made Without These. Both Accept The Sensory World As What The Middle Ages Called Signatura Regrum, The Signature Of Things, But In Quite Different Ways.

No Mature Style Of Art In Any Culture Has Ever Been Simple. In Certain Cultures, An Overall Symmetry May Conceal The Complexity Of The Work At First Glance.

But Art Not Only Exploits The Variety Of Appearances, It Also Affirms The Validity Of Individual Outlook And Thereby Admits A Further Dimension Of Variety. Since The Shapes Of Art Do Not Primarily Bear Witness To The Objective Nature Of The Things For Which They Stand, They Can Reflect Individual Interpretation And Invention.

In Many Instances, Order Is Apprehended First Of All By The Senses.

Just As A Chemist "isolates" A Substance From Contaminations That Distort His View Of Its Nature And Effects, So The Work Of Art Purifies Significant Appearance. It Presents Abstract Themes In Their Generality, But Not Reduced To Diagrams.