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Octavio Paz
'Art' is an invention of

Octavio Paz

Birth: 1914-03-31 , Cidade do México, México

Death: 1998-04-19 , Cidade do México, México

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914-April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature

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The Nobel Prize in Literature is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction"

'Art' is an invention of

Octavio Paz

'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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