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...“I’m not in favour or against migration, but we have problems too, lots of poverty,” says Chiapas taxi driver Luis Ángel Velázquez. “The earth belongs to everyone, but that’s why there are borders.”...
...The presiding artistic spirits are of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, who “wrote that a library is a labyrinth”, and Velázquez, whose paintings contain other paintings within them, which are in turn...
...Rivera Velazquez, 37 Luis Daniel Conde, 39 Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25...
...The site that inspires me is La Casa Luis Barragán in Mexico City....
...He depicted reforming minister of justice Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos with sparkling eyes and mobile mouth but posed after Dürer’s “Melancolia I” (1514), a troubled intellectual bowed by the cares of office...
...For years the king refused to be painted because “I am not inclined to endure Velázquez’s tardiness and I don’t want to see myself growing old”....
...Some years ago, I kept by me a print from Luis González Palma’s 2005 series La Luz de la Mente in just such a way and christened it The Underpants of Christ. I have wanted to own one ever since....
...I always request a table seat when I travel by train, not with the intention of getting involved in a complicated film plot but because there is nothing more beautiful and fascinating than human faces....
...I can’t help it. That is my first impression, and I should be slightly sceptical of anyone who said that they felt anything else.”...
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