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 apart into discreet categories.
EZRA POUNDNo man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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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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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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