
A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.
– Ezra Pound
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- Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound
- Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand. – Ezra Pound
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- There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight – Ezra Pound
- Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul,And thou shalt live for ever. – Ezra Pound
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- The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. – Ezra Pound
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- Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound
- If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good – Ezra Pound
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- In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. – Ezra Pound
- There’s always Gold amongst Silver but they don’t know it and there’s always Silver amongst Gold but they don’t show it. – Goitsemang Mvula
- The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I’d be a 400 pound guy. – Scott Adams
- How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
- The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. – Julia Cameron
- In a civilization when love is gone we turn to justice and when justice is gone we turn to power and when power is gone we turn to violence. – Kare Anderson
- Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice… and justice is the spirit of God. – JC Marino
- Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso
- When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. – Madeleine LEngle
- But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. – Philip K
- … an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. – Chaim Potok
- The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you. – Darnell Lamont Walker
- In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
- You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
- Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Skathis might have been an artist, but he’d been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile. – Laini Taylor
- A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist. – Kata Mlek
- Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. – Jean Genet
- The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. – Eric Gill
