Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Quotes

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All who want me would like to eat me up, But I am too expansive and am open to all sides, desire this here and that there.

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

[I had] pushed through to a spiritual sex: art—that nobody protects as readily as a charming love body of flesh.

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

We were people of a circle of supposed highcultivated life conduct by intellectual morality—higher than society in its hypocritical meshes.

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life.

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Everything emotional in America becomes a mere show and make-believe. Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances on that, yet never do they invest [in] beauty nor take desperate chances on that. With money they try to buy beauty—after it has died—famishing—with grimace. Beauty is ever dead in America.

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Born: July 12, 1874

Died: December 15, 1927 (aged 53)

Bio: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet who worked for several years in Greenwich Village, New York City, United States.

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