Anton Ehrenzweig Quotes

• Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Emotional, Abstract

  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

  Mentor, Genius, Students

  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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• Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Symbolism, Important

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

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• Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Giving, Way, Staring

  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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• The work of art
  acts like another living person
  with whom we are conversing.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Art, Works Of Art, Persons

  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

  Art, Loss, Age

  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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• 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

  Skins, World, Body

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