Alejo Carpentier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
-- Alejo Carpentier

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In America everything is fantastical.
-- Alejo Carpentier

#America
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.
-- Alejo Carpentier

#Beautiful #Sacrifice #Men
The truth was much more beautiful.
-- Alejo Carpentier

#Beautiful
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.
-- Alejo Carpentier

#Eye #Men #Alphabet

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.
The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.
True popular ballads are the spontaneous products of nature.
Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.
I don't listen to much modern composition.
Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
My religion lies in my composition.
Favor composition over inheritance,

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