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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

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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 ...

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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

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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.

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

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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.

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

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