“Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.”
What is Art? (1897)
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Jonathan Richardson (1667–1745) English painter
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Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985) American philosopher
Source: Feeling and Form (1953), Ch. 3, p. 40
“Art consists in making others feel what we feel.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 231
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A arte consiste em fazer os outros sentir o que nós sentimos.
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Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Lectures on Philosophy
Aberjhani (1957) author
(Love, Art, and Culture, p. 23).
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Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 7