
"Cuban-born artist Tomas Oliva, first set forth the goal of mastering realism, and master it he does, not to keep it as a permanent style, but as a step toward new dimensions in drawing and specially in sculpture..."
Ralph Rewes 1994
"Casi 60 años después del desafío y la ruptura que... el joven Tomás Oliva, al otro lado del país, reivindica para la escultura cubana, desde el realismo de The Way, la posibilidad figurativa, el rigor y la belleza."
Armando Álvarez Bravo 1999