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"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."
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"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."

"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."

"Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!"

"I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color."

"If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script."

"A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things."

"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."
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"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."

"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."

"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."

"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear."

"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."

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."

"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
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