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Ezra Pound Quotes

Ezra Pound quotes about art

American Poet October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. Ezra Pound
Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. Ezra Pound
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation. Ezra Pound
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a..."
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. Ezra Pound
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures..."
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure..."
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy..."
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "All great art is born of the metropolis."
All great art is born of the metropolis. Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound quote: "The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I..."
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. Ezra Pound
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. Ezra Pound

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