Ezra Pound - Art Quotes

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

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Humanity is the rich effuvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

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But the one thing you should not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts only.

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The history of an art is the history of master-work, not of failures, or mediocrity.

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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A. D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"
In the old sense. Wrong from the start —
No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.

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I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

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