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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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. 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
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
'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