Quote by Ezra Pound
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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Men
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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Change
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. – Martin Luther

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I love art dealers. In some ways, theyre my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries. – Jerry Saltz

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a mans starving! – O. Henry

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In general it can be said that a nations art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. – Edward Hopper

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[T]hen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open. – Agnes de Mille

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I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. – Helmut Newton

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In the life we might have lived, the years never pass. On the person we might have been, time never leaves its mark. How different would seem our might-have-beens if we could picture them as would-be-nows. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice Im likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. – Andrew Motion

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