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
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. 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
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning. 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