All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDIf 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.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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