“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to re...” — Ezra Pound Quote

“In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.”

“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”

“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.”

“Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.”

“It took centuries to form the German order.”

“Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.”