Ezra Pound Quotes

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Ezra Pound

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• Heart Of Man

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Art

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Years

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Good
  • Art
  • Painter

• 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Art
  • Worry
  • Feel

• Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Moments
  • Quality

• Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • History
  • Culture

• It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Labyrinth

• My work with Benton was important as something against which to react very strongly, later on; in this, it was better to have worked with him than with a less resistant personality who would have provided a much less strong opposition. At the same time Benton introduced me to Renaissance art. remark on his former art-teacher w:Thomas Hart Benton

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• Life isn't long enough for love and art.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Long
  • Art

• All Heaven is within thee, Man, And all of Hell within thy heart: What thou dost choose and will to have, That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Heaven

• There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Art
  • Learning
  • Road

• I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.

  

  Dean Bakopoulos
  • School
  • Friends
  • Small

• The range of genre that we is very diverse, which makes for a fun and multi-dimensional show, but creating something that flows, depending on what kind of vibe the show is going to be loud dive bar, small theatre, festival is a bit of an art a haphazard art at times.

  

  Sarah Burton
  • Art
  • Fun
  • Kind

• All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Fall
  • Gay
  • Rebirth

• It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF.

  

  Branch Warren
  • Training
  • Physique
  • Belief In Yourself

• You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Why
  • Want
  • Fear

• Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Study
  • Gloom