Ezra Pound Quotes

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

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• Through a painting we can see the whole world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Art
  • Empty
  • Thou Art

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Law
  • Foolish

• As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Art
  • Think
  • You

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Mind
  • Religion
  • Understand

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Islam

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Art
  • Science
  • Desire

• Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art
  • Mother

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Men
  • Religion
  • Grow

• What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Change
  • Religion
  • Revelation

• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Sex

• With head upraised, and look intent,And eye and ear attentive bent,And locks flung back, and lips apart,Like monument of Grecian art,In listening mood, she seemed to stand,The guardian Naiad of the strand.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Art
  • Listening
  • Mood

• I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Song

• Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.

  

  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • True

• I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Nation

• Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Religion
  • Resulting