Spain and Catalan's influence(s)

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Here is a fresh page dedicated to some of Spain and Catalan's greatest influences.




"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the songs of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them."

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

"Everything you can imagine is real"

-PABLO PICASSO






"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."


-SALVADOR DALI

"Simplicity is the glory of expression."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle,"

-WALT WHITMAN




"There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners."

"Nothing is art if it does not come from nature."

"Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature."

"In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential."

-ANTONI GAUDI



"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring ourselves."

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”

“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.”

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA