Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.

" 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.