11 Quotes by Ezra Pound about Art

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    Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.

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    If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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