Famous quotes containing the words spanish, realist, literature and/or criticism:
“It’s like a jumble of huts in a jungle somewhere. I don’t understand how you can live there. It’s really, completely dead. Walk along the street, there’s nothing moving. I’ve lived in small Spanish fishing villages which were literally sunny all day long everyday of the week, but they weren’t as boring as Los Angeles.”
—Truman Capote (1924–1984)
“In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”
—David Ben Gurion (1886–1973)
“Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)