Quotes by Italian/Italy authors (page 3)

"All that counts in life is intention"

"It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger"

"When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great"

"I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

"He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

"Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

"My poverty is not complete: it lacks me"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

"Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"The media can be a really strong vehicle"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"Translation is the art of failure"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity"

Marino Marini, Sculptor

"I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on"

Dino De Laurentiis, Director

"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me"

Camillo di Cavour, Statesman

"The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle"

Pietro Mascagni, Composer

"How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"There is no redemption from hell"

Pope Paul III, Clergyman

"Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled"

Silvia Colloca, Actress

"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"Sex is the great equalizer"

Nick Mancuso, Actor

"There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists"

Hugo Pratt, Cartoonist

"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live"

Gianni Versace, Designer

"And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan"

Gianni Agnelli, Businessman

"My life and career is my own adventure"

Dario Argento, Director

"He listens well who takes notes"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"I did not use paint, I made myself up morally"

Eleanora Duse, Actress

"Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused"

Claudia Cardinale, Actress

"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not"

Galileo Galilei, Scientist

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom"

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Writer

"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself"

Pietro Aretino, Poet

"There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing"

Giacomo Leopardi, Poet

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Quotes by Italian authors