Paul Rand

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

American Designer

Michael Showalter

I've always balked at anything that feels like a clique, even if it's not always in my best interest to do so. I like each individual, fedora-wearing hipster - it's just the greater gestalt that rubs me the wrong way.

American Comedian

Alan Menken

Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take you into a world of association.

American Musician

Douglas Tompkins

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

American Businessman

Elizabeth Marvel

The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.

American Actress

Charlotte Bunch

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

American Activist

David Lauren

My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

Remember 'gestalt' reflects the idea that a whole is different from the sum of its parts.

Beyond Components

'Gestalt' implies complexity that achieves a sense of completeness or wholeness.

Unified Complexity

'Gestalt' can be used for abstract and concrete things, but it's about gaining insight.

Abstract Gain

In psychology, 'gestalt' stresses perceiving the whole experience, not just individual feelings.

Whole Perception

Gestalt psychology looks at how people integrate information into meaningful wholes.

Unified Wholes

Context is crucial in 'gestalt'; each part is understood in its relationship to the whole.

Context Importance

In art, 'gestalt' suggests that the arrangement of parts affects our interpretation of an artwork.

Artistic Wholeness

A design's 'gestalt' signals how various elements blend to create a functional product.

Design Integration

'Gestalt' in art also refers to the emotional reaction evoked by seeing the whole piece.

Emotional Impact

 It was that human connection that Charles and Ray always found in everything. And you can imagine, and the thing about it is, that they believed that the human mind could handle this number of images because the important thing was to get the gestalt of what the images were about. So that was just a little snip. But the thing about Charles and Ray