Anton Ehrenzweig quotes

“Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.”
-- Anton Ehrenzweig

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.147, Univ of California Press

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“Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.”
-- Anton Ehrenzweig

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.107, Univ of California Press

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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.”
-- Anton Ehrenzweig

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“Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare”
-- Anton Ehrenzweig

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.67, Univ of California Press

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“Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.”
-- Anton Ehrenzweig

Source : "Subliminal Ad-ventures in Erotic Art" by Wilson Bryan Key, Branden Books, (p. 37), 1992.

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“The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.”
-- Anton Ehrenzweig

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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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

Source : Anton Ehrenzweig (1967). “The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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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.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

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

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“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.”

Source : "Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications". Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture at the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India, September 15, 2008.