Fernando Pessoa Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Art, Solitude

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Numbers: 4”

• 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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  Beautiful, Art, Purpose

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

• 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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  Strong, Art, Selfish

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Always Astonished: Selected Prose”, p.53, City Lights Books

• 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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  Art, Soul, Body

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

• Art lies because it's social.

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  Art, Lying, Deception

  Fernando Pessoa, Iain Watson (1991). “The book of disquiet: a selection”, Quartet Encounters

• Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

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  Art, Giving, Illusion

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.307, Profile Books

• 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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  Art, Average, Ends

• What is art but the denial of life?

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  Art, Denial

  Fernando Pessoa (2017). “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”, p.373, New Directions Publishing

• Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

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  Art, Feels, Book Of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa (2017). “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”, p.357, New Directions Publishing

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