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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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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – 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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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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Theres no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. – Jerzy Kosinski

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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! – Anatole France

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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. – Clive Bell

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