Fernando Pessoa Quotes

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

It's useful because it's beautiful.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've learned from. You needed that. We needed those building blocks in terms of - you know, when I look at a great Barbara Kruger, for example, and you're thinking about, you know, the woman's position in society - you know, she found a way of making it beautiful, but at the same time it's very sort of preachy, you know what I mean?

The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.