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

- Anton Ehrenzweig

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

- Anton Ehrenzweig

Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius.

- Anton Ehrenzweig

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

- Anton Ehrenzweig

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail [in art] may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

- 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

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