What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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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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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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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.
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The electoral process of July 6 perhaps represents a new era in the history of Mexico.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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