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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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Poetry
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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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Society
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Kinkades paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, Id love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkades work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. – John Lasseter

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Art

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves. – Konfal Blyther

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Art

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. – Honore de Balzac

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Art

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For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. – Terry Eagleton

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It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up. – Ginnifer Goodwin

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