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Octavio Paz

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

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

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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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"Be an artist in everything you do."

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"Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness."

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"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."

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"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."

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"Be an artist, see the beauty not only with your eyes but also with your heart."

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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

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"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."

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"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."
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"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."
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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."
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"Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings."
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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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"Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think."
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"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
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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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"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit."
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