Fernando Pessoa Quotes About Art
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Art lies because it's social.
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What is art but the denial of life?
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I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.
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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
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Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art.
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The end of lower art is to please, the end of average art is to raise the top, the end of superior art is to free.
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