Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

My alone doesn't always feel good, but I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude

I should have imagined how ugly life could be without you, how painful without your love and how lonely without your smiles.

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.