Anton Ehrenzweig Quotes

#1. Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

Anton Ehrenzweig

#2. They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Charlie Hunnam

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

Anton Ehrenzweig

#4. A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare

Anton Ehrenzweig

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

Anton Ehrenzweig

#7. I was the class podiatrist. I never made it to class clown. I wasn't funny enough. I would examine feet and prescribe and ointment. It was a sad childhood.

Gilbert Gottfried

#8. Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

Arda Collins

#9. I couldn't move. Never been hit by anything that powerful.

Overwhelmed.

Lost.

Falling.

My chest heaved. I shook. I pulled Kabe hard against me, turned my face into his chest. My eyes burned, my chest seized and I bawled like a baby.

James Buchanan

#10. Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.

Thomas Lickona

#11. 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

#12. One of the big areas I'd like to see a lot more research done on is the sensory problems, and it's real variable. One kid's got sound sensitivity; another one can't tolerate fluorescent lights. I can't stand scratchy clothes.

Temple Grandin

#13. I apply the three gag rule, which is if I can read a script without gagging more than three times, then maybe I can say yes to this job.

Peter Riegert

#14. The opportunity that is unique [to our] time is what inspires me to do everything I can to move things forward. This is the first time that we have the capacity to understand our place in the greater scheme of things to the extent that we do.

Sylvia Earle

#15. I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Anthony Braxton

#16. I do not need to be a selfless child, or a woman giving to the point of self-annihilation.

Anais Nin

#17. Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

Anton Ehrenzweig

#18. Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one.

Ann Coulter

#19. 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

#20. Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.

Claudia Gray