Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Quotes

German artist and poet (1874 –1927)

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (12 July 1874 – 15 December 1927), sometimes also called Else von Freytag-von 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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Alternative Names: Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoaven • Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven • Else Plötz • Else Hildegard Ploetz • Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven • Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven • Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (barones) • Elsa Hildegard Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven • Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven • Baronessa Elsa • Else von Freytag-Loringhoven • Elsa von Freytag-LoringhoavenElsa von Freytag-Loringhoaven

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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.

I had sexlogic implanted and used it.

Every artist is crazy with respect to ordinary life.

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.

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

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

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