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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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" Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. "

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" I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them. "

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" We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide. "

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" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "

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" Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. "

" The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. "

" Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. "

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