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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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 artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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