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. (Ezra Pound)

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.

Ezra Pound

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