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Explore our hand-picked selection of 108 inspiring quotes by Octavio Paz.

About Octavio Paz

  • Born: March 31, 1914
  • Died: April 19, 1998
  • Occupation: Poet
    • The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of christianity. art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. politics--or more precisely, revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; revolution was the construction of a universal church.
    Spiritual Art Museums
    Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.
    Real Criticism Analysis
    Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
    Art Uprising People
    What is art? a violet. is that all? an artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. it can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.
    Art Tree Style
    Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.
    Lying Foundation Language
    Writers, you know, are the beggars of western society.
    Writing Beggar Western
    Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
    Power Gestures Terrible
    It is the revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
    Delight Revolution Quick Death
    Changes are inseparable from democracy. to defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
    Possibility Of Change Justice Diversity
    Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
    Criticism Social Grammar
    The north american system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the north american mothers and wives. a person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.
    Mother School Reality
    The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce.
    Commerce E Commerce Values
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