A Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.. Mexican writer poet and diplomat
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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. Go to Quote / Comment
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 ... Go to Quote / Comment
A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful. Go to Quote / Comment
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once. Go to Quote / Comment
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Go to Quote / Comment