Bienvenido Santos Quotes

Photographers have become particular about background and candid shots. Pose as though you aren't posing. It's scary.

Perhaps in the fourth generation, a Vicenta Nuqui will be born among them, talkative, a worry wart, a singer, a beautiful, loving woman, but she won't bear her name. There will be no more Vicentas or Quiteras in the 21st century.

There is a Julio Iglesias song which I like very much. It's about "the girls I have loved before." and who have loved me. In my version, I sing of "old women" who have loved me before.

But there was nothing I could do about people in my drawings. Their faces looked frightening, their hair was always straggly and the only characteristic that distinguished the sexes was their hair. My women looked like witches that had been made of broomsticks. When they had brooms, they seemed a part of them. The men looked like gnomes with pinheads. When I tried to improve on this, they turned into grasshoppers.

Love, my God! What do you know of love? It's a curse; it's a disease that has got into you." "I know, I know. I told you it's worse than leprosy. But sometimes I tell myself it's love. We called it love in the beginning. We have moments of beauty together, Mildred and I, and I find this nowhere else.

To hear him talk, one got the impression that greater love hath no man for the common people, only, like most men of his sort, he could not stand the common people's smell.

Everybody looked so very much in love with everybody else, I wondered how much of it was truly love, how much was music and dimness and wine.

When the war broke he laughed and cried, "Now what did they have to do that for?" In his letters to John he was eloquent in his bitterness. He was sure that both he and John were going to die in this war. He said he preferred to die at sea. The sea was clean.

Fools rush in,' he said, 'only once.