The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in manโs memory. That is our duty. If we donโt fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
Jorge Luis BorgesMany people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
Jorge Luis BorgesMusic, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.
Jorge Luis Borges