Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art". — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives. There is… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound Copy Share
