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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz

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Wisdom
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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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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). Its why he found shooting on set boring – because he had already composed the film in his head. – Camille Paglia

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. – Billy Joel

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Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people. – Muqtada al Sadr

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The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. – Raphael, Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcenden

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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. – Louis Kronenberger

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