Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. – Jorge Luis Borges

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. – Jorge Luis Borges

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic. – Jorge Luis Borges

I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time when it will be silenced, an art that can become inflamed with its own virtue, fall in love with its own decline, and court its own demise. – Jorge Luis Borges

… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s intentions. – Jorge Luis Borges

… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s intentions. – Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it. – Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it. – Jorge Luis Borges

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it. – Jorge Luis Borges

A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. – Jorge Luis Borges