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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
"Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin."
"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."
"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."
"Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step."
"We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism."
"We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory."
"I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single."
"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."
"The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share."
"The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives."
"While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it."
"In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment."
"Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture."
"And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance."
"My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before."
"In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain."
"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve."
"Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country."
"But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers."
"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it."
"The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent."
"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."
"If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it."
"You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination."
"Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally."
"The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did."
"I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera."
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