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Art Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges
- Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
- Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
- Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I…
- Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
- There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
- I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque…
- Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining...
- All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we…
- Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is…
- To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
- The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of…
- It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not…
- The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
- God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
- Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he…
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
- Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we…
- A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even…
- The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral....
- The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something…
- The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;…
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