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.
From Ezra Pound
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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.
A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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