Quotes by Garabet Ibrăileanu

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It's naive to wonder. It's cynical not to be outraged.

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The word art evokes more consciousness, more will, more chiseling, a stricter composition, while the word poetry evokes more feeling, more abandon, more inspiration...

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The artist puts us more in the state of a spectator; the poet, more like a participant. You admire the artist; the poet moves you, you feel him "brother", and admiration follows after reflection...

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The pleasure caused by the artist is more intellectual; the one produced by the poet - more emotional. Art is more Apollonian, poetry more Dionysian...

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Through the impression produced, art is more like painting, sculpture and especially architecture, because it addresses more the senses, imagination, fantasy; poetry is more like music, because it addresses itself more to emotionality - ultimately, to the unconscious...

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A creator does not copy reality, but realizes his conception of reality...

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This conception, of course, has as its starting point certain notes from reality, certain attributes of man or time, and the creator builds on these notes or attributes. He builds according to his temperament, his culture, his morals, his philosophy, his senses, his prejudices and his cenesthesia, his psychic moment, his relation to society, his family, his lover, and his style, for the psychic material is selected by - and adapted to the possibilities of each one's style, and "the style is the man", i.e. the writer, each with his style, i.e.... with his personality...

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So the creator selects, transfigures what he has selected, transforms everything into something new and very personal...

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Artists are all more or less romantics, and they can't stand bourgeois platitudes and dominant reality. Then the artist is by his very nature excessively at extreme positions: either reactionary or revolutionary.

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The act of poetic creation shows better than anything how complex the human soul is and what role the unconscious plays in soul life.

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A writer is a disciple of the whole literature and especially of the writers with whom he has a soul kinship and therefore, he likes, convinces, frequents and from whom he cannot but learn. But the original writer owes so much to the masters.

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The true creator is up to a point irresponsible for his creation, because he is dominated by it. He only stylizes it. Characters are born and, above all, develop according to their own will and nature.

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The aesthetic value of a literary work is closely related to its specific originality of substance and form. It can be said that between two writers of equal native talent, the one will be greater, in whose work the soul of the people will be felt more strongly and the realities of material life will be more richly reflected.

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Basically, morality is also an aesthetic. For if artistic contemplation has a moral value, how much more will the very creation of beauty, in itself or without. Art creates it outside, virtue itself. Virtue makes life an object of art.

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The artist creates with all his personality; his world of images - both in its storage and in its reproduction in the work of art - is conditioned by his feelings and conceptions of life...what determines his associations of images are the feelings and conceptions...; an artist has preferences, likes and dislikes, which are revealed in his creation.

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Any work of art is a philosophy on life or a "criticism of life".

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Great poetry is, and is nothing else, than the tragic thrill in the face of life.

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Memories: ...a music that comes to us from somewhere beyond the horizon.

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In life we ​​each carry a flag on which is written in large letters: ME.

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Slavery is not a state conducive to generosity and forgiveness. Generosity is the virtue of the strong.

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Man always finds high motives for his selfish actions. The anthropophagus, who eats his parents for lack of meat, is convinced that he is doing a moral act...

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Altruism:... the virtue of the strong.

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Lying is an embarrassing effort for the intelligent man.

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The search for truth is the deep aspiration of our soul, our intelligence and our feeling.