Paz

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    Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)