"In my opinion, the most significant works of……" — Juan Goytisolo
"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
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
17 Quotes by Juan Goytisolo
Juan Goytisolo has 17 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns…
-
But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no…
-
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses…
-
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a…
-
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the…
-
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up…
-
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did…
-
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect…
-
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
-
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological…
-
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more…
-
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to…
See all 17 quotes by Juan Goytisolo »
More Beyond Quotes
This quote is filed under Beyond Quotes,
one of 5,476 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
-
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was…
— David Attenborough
-
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
— Diane Ackerman
-
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
— Francis Bacon
-
In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.
— Christian Bale
-
There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is…
— Christian Bale
-
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
-
I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
-
The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
— Charles Baudelaire
-
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families…
— Gary Bauer
See all 5,476 Beyond Quotes »