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Quotes from The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel — José Ortega y Gasset

1883–1955 Spain

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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities.

The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

The metaphor alone furnishes an escape; between the real things, it lets emerge imaginary reefs, a crop of floating islands.

The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

We feel that we actual men have suddenly been left alone on the earth; that the dead did not die in appearance only but effectively; that they can no longer help us.

The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.

The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: José Ortega y Gasset (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.