Fernando Pessoa Quotes about Art

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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

Fernando Pessoa

Art, Feels, Book Of Disquiet

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

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Fernando Pessoa

Beautiful, Art, Purpose

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

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

Life, Art, Solitude

Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Numbers: 4”

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

Fernando Pessoa

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.

Fernando Pessoa

Art, Average, Ends

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

Fernando Pessoa

Art, Soul, Body

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

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.

Fernando Pessoa

Strong, Art, Selfish

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