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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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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz

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Love
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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. – Pablo Picasso

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Life is not an exact science, it is an art. – Samuel Butler

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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