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Artist 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…
- Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
- The artist is always beginning.
- Artists are the antennae of the race.
- 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…
- 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…
- The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife,…
- 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 serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set…
- The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in…
- 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 Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu