Quotes by Spanish/Spain authors (page 2)

"The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"When desire dies, fear is born"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"You can't bomb a people just in case"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"Have friends. 'Tis a second existence"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

"I think the concept of the sea is very important"

Alejandro Amenabar, Director

"That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Pain is never permanent"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

"Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why"

Pedro Almodovar, Director

"Time and I against any two"

Philip II of Spain, Royalty

"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement"

Lope de Vega, Playwright

"To see you naked is to recall the Earth"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families"

Hernando Cortes, Leader

"The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked"

Victoria Abril, Actress

"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"

Juan Goytisolo, Poet

"I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that"

Buenaventura Durruti, Revolutionary

"True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor"

Saint Ignatius, Saint

"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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