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Ezra Pound

"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."

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"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."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

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"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

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"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

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"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

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"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
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