“Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I would want to acknowledge is that perhaps the tension, the crucial tension, isn't necessarily between the view of bullfighting as a tradition versus as an art form, but between the values inside the ring and the values outside the ring.” WorldWantArtFormValuesViewsBehindsTraditionLeavingRingsAcknowledgeTensionCrucialVersusBullfighting Author:Bette Ford
“It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.” ValuesImagineImpossibleSpainBullfighting Author:Bette Ford
“One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.” ThinkingWorldValuesSurvivalPocketsElsewhereSpainBullfightingOld Values Author:Bette Ford
“Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.” ArtFormValuesExampleSurvivalProtectionReactingMadridBullfightingOld Values Author:Bette Ford
