Quote by Octavio Paz
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention o

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game. – Octavio Paz

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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears. – Octavio Paz

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Poetry
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz

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alone
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz

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History
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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. – Andy Warhol

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. – Vladimir Nabokov

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Art

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The idea is, if I cant heal from my art, then how can you heal? – Maynard James Keenan

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Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them. – Claudia Christian

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Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. – Elizabeth I

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