Ezra Pound Quotes

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

The classic literature is always modern.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

I enjoy classics, but classics are classics for a reason. I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.

The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.

We go out of fashion but can also come back into fashion. So you've just got to hang around long enough until you are back in style.

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain relevant, regardless of how you do them.

I don't believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.

I don't want my music to be of its time; I want it to be timeless.

If fashion is good, it has no epoch.

Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.

Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.

High tech is for a short time. But art is forever. People still admire a Picasso or a Van Gogh. But they don't admire the steam locomotive anymore.

I don't think you can ever remake a classic.

All the buzz can be very much here today and gone tomorrow, but my focus is creating music that will last forever.

The one amazing thing about 'Jack' is that I did it in 2001, you know, and it still survived. There's something about it that's connected with people.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics