Quotes by Alexandru Dima
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1905-10-17 - 1979-03-19
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Poetic fashion is a parasitic phenomenon of artistic mimicry, confined to strict actuality and therefore transient, which - rejecting the models of the predecessors and ostentatiously hunting for the new - always proposes other fetishes, pursues success instead of value, confuses originality with novelty, cultivates mannerism and cliché substance content, thus constituting a school of convenience and imposture.
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Without some relationship, no matter how modest, with reality, with its appreciation or depreciation, therefore with a specific position, with a "tendency", there could not exist, in fact, any kind of art.
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