Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
Octavio PazRead
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
Interpretation
Surrealism is more than just a form of poetry; it embodies a unique perspective on reality and existence.
Octavio Paz emphasizes that surrealism transcends poetry, representing a fundamental way of seeing and interpreting the world. It is an artistic movement that challenges conventional perceptions and explores the deeper, often irrational aspects of human experience, providing a distinct vision that reshapes our understanding of reality.
In practice
In a discussion about artistic movements, one might reference this quote to highlight the depth of surrealism.
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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.
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
Little by little, I've reached the stage of using only a small number of forms and colors. It's not the first time that painting has been done with a very narrow range of colors. The frescoes of the tenth century are painted like this. For me, they are magnificent things.
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
I'm playing deep African music.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.
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