Octavio Paz Quotes

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PaintingLanguageEscapeSignsPure

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.

Jessye Norman

SingingSongSpeakYouKnowPoet

The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.

Joel Grey

SpeakRichLanguageAlwaysUnusual

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Anita Brookner

LifeLiveMenCareEndLong

You can only write your own vision.

Ann Maxwell

VisionYouWriteOwnOnlyYour

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

John Twelve Hawks

ThoughtsFreeNeverWithoutActions

Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.

Sriti Jha

SpeakLanguageI CanEnglishJust

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Steve Wozniak

PowerPeopleComputersRevolutionUs

Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.

Tom Landry

WinningStrongAmericaYouTake

I thinned them out real thin once and it just didn't look like me. I know it was in style to have really thin eyebrows, but it didn't look right on my face.

Denise Richards

StyleMeFaceLookKnowRight

I was heavily involved in musical theater.

Brad Goreski

InvolvedMusical TheaterTheater

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

Bob Schieffer

PeopleGoWayMorePressDealing

Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

William Klein

WorkMePaintingPhotographyLed

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