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. Ezra Pound Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Ezra Pound Read Quote
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. Ezra Pound Read Quote
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. Ezra Pound Read Quote
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound Read Quote
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. Ezra Pound Read Quote
