Ezra Pound Quotes
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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I want the respect of intelligent men but I will choose for myself the intelligent. I love art but I decide for myself what is art. I adore beauty but only my own soul shall tell me what is beauty. I worship God but I define and describe God for myself. I am an individual. The pleasure of my own heart shall be first to inform me when I have done good work.
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I don't see why escapist literature should not also be a work of art.
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Ron Rosenbaum: Why are you doing what you're doing?Bob Dylan: Pause Because I don't know anything else to do. I'm good at it.Ron Rosenbaum: How would you describe 'it'?Bob Dylan: I'm an artist. I try to create art.
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We are now committed to an unqualified art, not illustrating outworn myths or contemporary alibis. One must accept total responsibility for what he executes. And the measure of his greatness will be in the depth of his insight and his courage in realizing his own vision.
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The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.
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Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
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And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
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When I entered TV, I realised that it's not just all about art, but it has a business dimension as well. You need to take care of yourself. I also learned who my viewers are.
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I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
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Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault.
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You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it's not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can't worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. That's it.
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I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.
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Music is art, and making watches is art, too.
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Games can be art, and they can be significant and all the glorified things that we want them to be. But if you ask a kid if their toys are important, they'll say 'yes,' and 'Please don't take them away.'
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A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.
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Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.
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This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.
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Neo-imperialist trends in foreign policy have strengthened, and energy has been used as a weapon to achieve those goals.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
