I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.

- Alejo Carpentier

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 in…

- Alejo Carpentier

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 e…

- Alejo Carpentier

The truth was much more beautiful.

- Alejo Carpentier

In America everything is fantastical.

- Alejo Carpentier