Ezra Pound Quotes

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

When art is about craftsmanship, then guys like me don't make it as artists.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

'The Gardener' is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

I've been drawing since I was five years old.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

The world of fashion and fine arts in New York really took me by surprise, and photography has helped me through a period of personal turmoil. I am glad when people like my portfolio, but its aim is - or was - to keep me at peace.

I don't enjoy art.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.