Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant. Octavio Paz accomplicealternatelyaware share on social
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. Octavio Paz poetsoundwater Change image and share on social
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 abstractattemptescape Change image and share on social
In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects. Octavio Paz accedeagentchange Change image and share on social
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz contrarydeprivationexpression share on social
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different. Octavio Paz partpoemreproduce Change image and share on social
One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. Octavio Paz charactercomplacentcontemplate Change image and share on social
Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations. Octavio Paz aestheticagentchange share on social
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. Octavio Paz artartistcreator Change image and share on social
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. Octavio Paz begincriticismestablish Change image and share on social
