Al Alvarez Quotes

Poet

Al Alvarez, born on August 5, 1929, is a renowned poet whose works are known for their profound emotion and unique style, winning the hearts of readers worldwide.

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“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”

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Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

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Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

“Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.”

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Author:Al Alvarez

“The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.”

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Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

About the Author

Born: August 5, 1929
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 20

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