Wednesday, October 7, 2009

world-weariness... (2)

Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Apollo and Muses and a River God (1652)


The value of art is that it takes us away from here.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, ed. and trans. by Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2002), p. 300.


(Afterthought: Art takes us away from here, while making us pitifully realise, in the same movement, that we are here, alas...)

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