Anton Ehrenzweig Quotes

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

Anton Ehrenzweig

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• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Feeling
  • Progress
  • Values

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • School
  • Day
  • Always

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• I have some sarcastic sides of me.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Me
  • Sides
  • Sarcastic

• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Song
  • Black
  • Morning

• I can have an androgynous quality.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Quality
  • I Can
  • Androgynous

• All women have insecurities and bad times. What counts is how you overcome them.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Overcome

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Famous
  • Titanic

• The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • Great
  • Guy

• The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • You
  • Play

• Is 'Cowboy Casanova' about the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys? No. I would never immortalize a guy that did me wrong. I would never give him that much credit.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Guy
  • Cowboy

• Rock n roll stops the traffic

  

  Bono U2
  • Rock

• Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Food

• I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Art
  • Why
  • Movie

• As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Art

• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Habit
  • Natural
  • Perfection

• I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy individuals... As commonly expressed, it can be said that in these cases at least two different kinds of agglutinins exist, one kind in A, the other in B, both together in C. The cells are naturally insensitive to the agglutinins in their own serum.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

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

  

  Anton Ehrenzweig
  • Art
  • Person
  • Conversing