Quotes by Aurel Baranga

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True art requires courage, creative daring, originality, the effort - paid, not infrequently, with heavy penalties - to open new paths for the spirit.

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The "truths" are multiple, diverse and contradictory. The truth in art, however, can only be the truth of the great creative multitudes, those who build the supreme truth of humanity: History.

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The revolutionary writer justifies his title to the extent that he seeks and discovers the laws of an ongoing morality, to the extent that he senses, before others, what is still in gestation, and announces to the city, a moment earlier, what tomorrow will become an obvious reality for everyone.

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The art of all times has been a testimony of passion. An "objective" literature, free from the thrill of participation in the convulsions of the will, is a circle without circumference and with the center everywhere. The poet located "above reality" is a delusion, and the fruit of labor a sad futility...

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The great literature of all times was a committed, militant, partisan literature, an art of pathos...

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The deepest of truths: life copies art!

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Do not judge the writers, if only because they are the only beings awaiting judgment.

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Any failure, no matter how insignificant, is a form of death.

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The indifferent is characterized by an excellent idea of ​​himself, and by another, execrable, of all the rest of mankind seen through a pair of binoculars that shrink men to the filthy size of humunculi. The careless is confident that he can afford anything as it is, in his sacrosanct judgments.

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Of all the human sins, the most detestable remains, without any possibility of denial, the unsparingness, the august indifference of man to the sufferings of the man next to him, and this because the denounced vice involves all the others: egotism, insensitivity, lack of memory and emotion, a heap of stigmata, able to deprave the human being to the threshold of the beast, and beyond it.

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Loud, truly, is only he who has the courage to drive away his flatterers with the whip. Of course, the fiercest adversaries are recruited from disappointed flatterers.

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The true flatterer must be a moralist: to discover in the flattered the virtues which the latter would be happy to have.

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All truths begin by being paradoxes and end by becoming commonplaces.