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

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• Octavio Paz:

  What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

• Octavio Paz:

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

• Octavio Paz:

  Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

• Octavio Paz:

  Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something m

• Octavio Paz:

  Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no differ

• Octavio Paz:

  If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of

• Octavio Paz:

  Deserve your dream.

• Octavio Paz:

  Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

• Octavio Paz:

  We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

• Octavio Paz:

  To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.