Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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... view

By: Ezra Pound

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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary... view

By: Ezra Pound

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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting... view

By: Ezra Pound

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All great art is born of the metropolis... view

By: Ezra Pound

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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism... view

By: Ezra Pound

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Wars are made to make debt... view

By: Ezra Pound

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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... view

By: Ezra Pound

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

By: Ezra Pound

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree... view

By: Ezra Pound

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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art... view

By: Ezra Pound

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding... view

By: Ezra Pound

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