Augusto Bastos Quotes

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos

There is always time to take more time. ~ Augusto Roa Bastos

I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there. ~ Augusto Pinochet

The sensitive suffer more; but they love more, and dream more. ~ Augusto Cury

My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator. ~ Augusto Pinochet

My library is filled with UN condemnations. ~ Augusto Pinochet

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor. ~ Augusto Pinochet

Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves. ~ Augusto Boal

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it. ~ Augusto Boal

Empathy is the most powerful weapon [ ... ] ~ Augusto Boal

Theatre is a weapon. For that reason it must be fought for. ~ Augusto Boal

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing. ~ Augusto Pinochet

The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth. ~ Augusto Pinochet

Frustrations are the privilege of the living and transcending them is a privilege of the wise. ~ Augusto Cury

The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians. ~ Augusto Pinochet

We have no political prisons. We have political internal exiles. ~ Augusto Pinochet

Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists. ~ Augusto Pinochet

Democracy is the breeding ground of communism, ~ Augusto Pinochet

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins. ~ Augusto De Luca

It is not the place of the theatre to show the correct path, but only to offer the means by which all possible paths may be examined. ~ Augusto Boal

My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator ... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened. ~ Augusto Pinochet

I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face. ~ Augusto Pinochet

Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it. ~ Augusto Boal

I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over. ~ Augusto Pinochet

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion. ~ Augusto Boal

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution. ~ Augusto Boal

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ... Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion. ~ Augusto De Luca

It is forbidden to walk on the grass. It is not forbidden to fly over the grass. ~ Augusto Boal

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist. ~ Augusto Pinochet

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation. ~ Augusto Pinochet

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater. ~ Augusto Boal

Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment ... Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last. ~ Augusto De Luca

All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time. ~ Augusto De Luca

The past is a tyrant and it won't allow my family to come back to me. But the present generously lifts my downcast face and makes me see that, although I can't change what I was, I can construct what I will be. ~ Augusto Cury

Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides ... A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs. ~ Augusto De Luca

Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties ... I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets. ~ Augusto De Luca

The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!). ~ Augusto Boal

I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture. ~ Augusto De Luca

The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to think or to act in his place. The spectator frees himself; he thinks and acts for himself! Theatre is action! ~ Augusto Boal

I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem. ~ Augusto De Luca

I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973 ... These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government. ~ Augusto Pinochet

The freedoms which had been so hard won from colonial domination were being crushed by Soviet-inspired and funded military and political forces. Their clear intention was to deprive the people of their democratic freedoms. As history shows, this is what had happened in the Soviet Union and in Cuba, and continues to be the case in other parts of the world. ~ Augusto Pinochet