The best Quotes by Octavio Paz

The best Quotes by Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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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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Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."
Driss in Intouchables
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
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Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta
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Art is a way of survival.
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
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I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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For a while, for as long as you're looking at it, that painting is the world and you get to be in it.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.
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Art can shed light on our fears.
Art is empty without empathy.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
I want to live in a world created by art, not just decorated with it.
I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.
Solidarity makes me creative - you drink a glass of wine and feel even worse. Art can't exist without pain; and art exists to cure pain.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection.
During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself.
For 45 years I've worked without an audience.
I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
My parents were my worst audience.
I think a night like tonight shows a lot of young girls and young boys that if you can shoot you can shoot. It doesn't matter if you're a girl or a boy, I think it just matters the heart that you have and wanting to be the best that you can be.
Sabrina Ionescu - February 2024
I'm looking to do everything that I possibly can to get better in every aspect, whether that's scoring, defending, rebounding, passing, i'm really just excited to be playing against professionals and learning from them and just seeing where that takes me.
Sky is the limit for her and what she can do on the court, in terms of her impact in the game but also the court as well... It's been fun to watch her journey.
Stephen Curry - February 2024
I grew up watching Kobe Bryant game after game, ring after ring, living his greatness without apology.
Sabrina Ionescu - February 2020

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