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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses."
"I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger."
"We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides."
"And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me."
"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."
"Do you think it's dirty money? All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it."
"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."
"The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?' -Pablo Picasso."
"I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it."
"I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting."
"I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there."
"Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter."
"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."
"The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council."
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
"He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us."
"I want to live like a poor man with lots of money."
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun."
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
"One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn't aware of it."
"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
"Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return."
"Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station."
"The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain."
"Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend?-I can barely remember Lord's Prayer.-A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society."
"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
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