#on

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#baroque #contemporary #epochs #expressions #findings

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #condition #did #elements #him

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #been #broadened #day #discovery

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#beginning #created #dedication #economic #emerged

That's the wonderful thing about the human heart, there's room enough for all kinds of love. ↗

— Heather Gudenkauf

#inspirational #love #family

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#century #conceptual #criticism #drama #etc

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#bureaucratic #capitalism #caste #collective #created

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#because #cannot #feign #himself #innocence

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#beast #brute #everything #god #live

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#actions #affinities #among #architecture #arts