Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts - in fact, the noblest of the arts. That… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“There is a great promise for our cultural growth, but this promise is achieved only when our artists recognize that all great… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things?… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the land you belong to claiming you back. But everywhere the earth is the same. -Old David” — F. Sionil José Copy Share
“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. — F. Sionil José Copy Share
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share
Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share
Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals,… — F. Sionil José Copy Share
We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are… — F. Sionil José Copy Share
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share
Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share
November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive… — F. Sionil José Copy Share
“No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me. -Istak” — F. Sionil José Copy Share
