"What distinguishes modern art from the art of……" — Octavio Paz

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

— Octavio Paz

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80 Quotes by Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different…
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be…
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can…
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies…
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time…
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes…
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks.…
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood…
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity.…

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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