Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.
The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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