Anton Ehrenzweig Quotes

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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• It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Curse

• Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Great
  • Important
  • Writing

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
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• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
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• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
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• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• Small aim is a crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Small
  • Crime
  • Aim

• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Remember
  • High
  • Want

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Will
  • Angel
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• I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • American
  • Culture
  • Surprised

• The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • May
  • Community

• All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Happy

• My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hair
  • Moment
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• When once-which every body must be-you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted your own innocence of heart. Experience will prove the depravity of mankind, and the conviction of it only serves to create distrust, suspicion-caution-and sometimes causelessly.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Experience

• You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Poverty

• I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Reading
  • Sweet

• I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.

  

  Marshall Brickman
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• I'm John Salley, and I'm a vegan. I'm a vegan because I'm only four pounds heaver than I was in 1989.

  

  John Salley
  • Vegan

• Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

  

  David Hilbert
  • Science
  • Opinion
  • Connection

• In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.

  

  David Suchet
  • Character
  • Age
  • Deep

• 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
  • Age
  • Immortality