Ezra Pound Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Men, Two

  Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

• All great art is born of the metropolis.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Cities, Born

  1913 Letter to Harriet Monroe, 7 Nov.

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

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Ezra Pound (1965). “Ezra Pound perspectives: essays in honor of his eightieth birthday”

• Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Mean, Bears

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

• The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Ezra Pound (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

• Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Religion, Atheism

  "Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: Contributions to Periodicals". Volume 10,

• The artist is the antenna of the race.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Artist, Race

  Ezra Pound, Timothy Materer (1985). “Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis, the Correspondence of Ezra Pound”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

• It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

  Ezra Pound

  Marriage, Art, Tea

• 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.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Money, Needs

  Ezra Pound, Timothy Materer (1991). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924”, p.2, Duke University Press

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

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Tree, Humanity

• The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Historical, Mediocrity

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2005). “The Spirit of Romance”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

• Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Real, Sculpture

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

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Artist, Should

  Ezra Pound (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.253, New Directions Publishing

• 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.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Men, Study

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Curiosity, Literature

  "A Serious Character". Book by Humphrey Carpenter, 1988.

• The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Poetry, Pigment

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

• Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Poetry, Sound

• Learn of the green world what can be thy place
  In scaled invention or true artistry

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Green World, Invention

  Cantos no. 81, l. 148 (1948)

• 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.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Children, Light

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.204, New Directions Publishing

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