It was [Ezra] Pound who coined the name Vorticism, which was meant to connote vital, violent, rather mystical action. In artistic terms, the goals of the movement are difficult to define.
Great works of art contain this fourth sort of equation. They cause form to come into being. By the "image"
I mean such an equation; not an equation of mathematics, not something about a, b, and c, having something
to do with form, but about sea, cliffs, night, having something to do with mood.
The image is not an idea. It is a radiant node or cluster; it is what I can, and must perforce, call a
VORTEX, from which, and through which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing. In decency one can
only call it a VORTEX. And from this necessity came the name "vorticism." Nomina sunt consequentia rerum,
and never was that statement of Aquinas more true than in the case of the vorticist movement.
Ezra Pound - Vorticism
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