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Octavio Paz Quotes

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: mexican
Birth: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

Topics

Art Game Invention Turn Call Which

I'd just sit with Dee Dee on the corner off of Queens Boulevard and drink and insult people and stuff. That's when I got kicked out of my house. My mother told me it was for my own good.

Good Mother People Me House Insult

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Beauty Ice Way See Sure Smooth

The Apple IIc, with its 128KB of RAM, 125KB floppy drive, word processor, and spreadsheet application, did everything I could imagine a computer doing at the time.

Andrew Rosenthal

Time Drive Doing Apple Everything

The key to life, in my opinion, is to hang with good people, to have good people around you all the time because you're always going to have some people who will try and lead you in a certain place, and when the pressure comes on, you want real tough, solid people sitting next to you.

Life Good Time People Opinion Key

Every day is great when your name is Matt Hardy.

Great Day Name Every Day Your Every

I was a closet stutterer.

Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

Together Someone You Unique Why Two

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel de Montaigne

Men Been Few Admired Few Men

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Jean de la Bruyere

Funny Day Burden First Guest Pest

Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

Work Art Men Thought Early Rock

Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our visual culture was a waste of time? Who thought that only private schools should have that privilege? Was it someone who said we don't need experts?

Cornelia Parker

Good History Time Art Culture Said

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Fear Art Camera Know Hand No Fear

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