Anton Ehrenzweig Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius. — Anton Ehrenzweig

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

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

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