Ezra Pound Quotes
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Quotes to Explore
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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Sex is a discovery.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
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Dreams are a reflection of your desires.
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The poet Amanda Nadelberg puts it nicely in an interview when she says "often what I listen for in poems is a sense that the writer is a little lost, not deliberately withholding information or turning on the heavy mystery machines, but honestly confounded - by the world? isn't it so? - and letting others listen in on that figuring." That's what engages me - the mind in motion, the drama of someone in the process of thinking - and it's the elusive mystery of those movements that I hope to capture in my essays.
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'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
