“Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”
More from Ezra Pound on Art
“A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.”
“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.”
“All great art is born of the metropolis.”
“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”
“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
“Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
John Keats
10 quotes“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”
Ansel Adams
7 quotes“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Marshall McLuhan
7 quotes“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Jackson Pollock
7 quotes“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”