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Art Quotes by Ezra Pound
- The artist is the antenna of the race.
- If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the…
- The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
- Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
- 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…
- All great art is born of the metropolis.
- Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
- 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…
- 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…
- Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
- The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
- 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…
- The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
- 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…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov