Mario Vargas Llosa Art Quotations

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)