When hypocrisy is a character trait…– Octavio Paz
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one’s thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one’s thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one
Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.
All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like
Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall – that of our consciousness –
We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in
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