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Fernando Pessoa
He (the artist) may not be intelligent, but he must be intellectual.
He (the artist) may not be intelligent, but he must be intellectual.
Art is the intellectualisation of sensation (feeling) through expression. The intellectualisation is given in, by and through the expression itself. That is why great artists — even great artists in literature, which is the most intellectual of the arts — are so often unintelligent persons.
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“Erostratus”. in Páginas de Estética e de Teoria Literárias. Fernando Pessoa. (Textos estabelecidos e prefaciados por Georg Rudolf Lind e Jacinto do Prado Coelho.) Lisboa: Ática, 1966.

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