Anton Ehrenzweig famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
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Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.
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There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.
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Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare
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Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.
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The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.
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The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the spirit of every new age.
-- Anton Ehrenzweig
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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.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract.
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Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
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