Anton Ehrenzweig famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

  • Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

  • The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

  • Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

  • Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

  • The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

  • Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

  • The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

  • Money is human happiness in the abstract.

  • Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.