Art Quote by Ezra Pound Download Open image “The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.” — Ezra Pound ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art history Art is Artist Failure Historical History History Art History Masterwork Masterwork Failures Mediocrity
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls… — Marianne von Werefkin Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I always thought that art that is produced somehow has to reflect the zeitgeist or the ambiance and the time and the history in… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to… — Dave Brubeck 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 Image
“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 Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
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 Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
