Anton Ehrenzweig Quotes
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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 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.
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It is perhaps due to the fact that our own modern art is often content to work from low irrational levels of the mind alone, that our civilization has become so receptive to the art of other civilizations... the complex diffuse substructure of all art.
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Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
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The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.
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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.